I love snow. It’s
pretty, bright white blankets of fluff covering the ground, deck, rocks and
evergreen trees. I could sit and look at
it all day long. Sigh…
And then it starts to rain.
NO! Not rain! Aw man! I DO NOT
like ice. A thick hard sheet of slippery
fun covers the yard, driveway and deck.
I don’t think much of it.
I’m taking some of my kids to play board games with their Great
Gramma. We load into my sister’s Jeep
and I put it into 4 wheel drive. Nothing
is sanded yet. I’m thinking it’ll be
just fine since my car can drive on it, right? WRONG!
Almost as soon as I start down the driveway the Jeep starts
to slide. I tap on the brakes to see if
it’s going to help at all. Um NO! Nope!
I take my foot off the brake. Now I’m sliding sideways….down the drive
way.
Alyssa is freaking out, just a bit. She scares so easily. Colin says, “Um Mom?” Like he wonders if I
realize that we’re sliding. Haha! Yeah…
We stop at the bottom of the driveway; thankfully. I decide to be brave and try to keep
going. I get the Jeep going in the right
direction and start slowly driving. I’m
sliding all over the icy road. Yep. I’m not going anywhere. I pull over and stop to let Gramma know that
we won’t be able to make it this time.
I very carefully and slowly start turning the Jeep
around. Back up. Stop. Pull forward. Stop. Inch by inch I turn around and drive back up
into the driveway; keeping the left tires in the snow on the side of the road
as I go. The Jeep slides as I turn it
into its parking spot and then comes to a stop.
Sigh. Well THAT was fun!
We all get to spend some time sanding! I think this is the ONLY part of winter I
don’t enjoy. Haha! ICE!
Even a week after that ice came, it still covered the driveway. Some small patches had melted. Bring me snow…ANY DAY…instead of
ice!
