It started snowing here on Friday around 2:30 or so... by the time I left work it was coming down
hard and sticking.
Carolyn and I had a Valentines date 40 miles away at a location reachable only by using lightly
traveled backroads (at least some of the way)... we decided to go for it, Intellicast said it wouldn't
drop below freezing until 11:00pm or so, so we figured the roads would be "wet and slushy" rather
than "slick and frozen"... Carolyn swapped her girly-dressy shoes for muck boots, and off we went -
that's Dag's calender, so this is Valkyrie related...
Well... the Mini has a pretty accurate outside-temp thermometer - it was hovering between 32 and 31 all
the way... on some of the uphills on the curvy backroads near the Restaurant (Grits and Groceries) we
were slipping in third gear and the snow was coming down hard and maybe I was feeling kind of like
a dope
... On the way home there were cars crashed in the road, cars crashed on the side of the
road, several long bridges over Lake Hartwell (bridge freezes before road) to cross and as a final obstacle
we had to go down and then up "Snow Creek Hill" on Hwy 59 a mile from the dirt road leading to our house.
All I can say is: the Mini is an awesome car. Here she is this morning, I went out to get one of my gloves,
had to go in the hatch, both doors are frozen shut:
Snow makes horses frisky, I took video of them acting like fools, here's a still shot I cropped out...
Bonnie must always run with a stick. This leads to broken spokes and trailside crashes when we're riding
mountain bikes (no, Bonnie doesn't ride a bike)...
Here's one of my favorite places to sit (only not today)...
-Mike
