Flashback Update: 1/3/17 - SNOW!

Darwin: Christmas and New Years break from school and work is over, but the morning we had to go back to school it snowed...immensely!!!  In our part of the valley at my parents home where we are currently staying we got around 18 - 20 inches of snow!

As I was busting my back shoveling snow, making a beeline for my car, anxious about being late for work, Kiara came outside and said the Nebo School District has phoned an automated message about school.  "Pheww!"  I thought.  I knew they were going to call it a "snow day" where they cancel school.  Kiara said the automated message stated that school is still in session at the regular start time.  "WHAT!  Are you FRICKEN kidding me?!"  (I can't recall if I said that out loud or not.  Probably out loud, emphasis on "loud".)  The audacity of this district!  Within 10 or 15 minutes Kiara came out again and said that the district sent out a new automated message.  "Ah, they have come to their senses."  I thought.  "Their calling it a snow day."  She said the message stated that that there would be a two hour delayed start.  "What?!  What are they thinking?  Is it so wrong to call a snow day?"  Long story short, at school, many of my students said that where they lived (Payson, Goshen, Genola) they didn't get nearly as much snow, around 4 - 6 inches.  For that reason the district decided to not call it a snow day, but to delay it for necessary schools.  Later I found that teachers were suppose to be there at the start times to see to the students that did arrive early.  HA!  Stuff that!  It took me the full two extra hours to dig out the Suzuki and the Pilot.  Hard work, but it did make for good memories and fun snow activities later that week.

Kiara was taking video as I was cleaning the snow off the top of the Pilot and I about fell off.  :o)

Beautifully scenic!

The odd marks in the snow behind Aurora were left from the snow that packed against the side of the Suzuki during the Christmas break, showing the wheels and side body of the car.

"Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem."

- William Hamilton Gibson