November 13, 2013

  • I Couldn't Have Done It Without You

    I’ve been noticing all the “30 Days of Thanksgiving” posts on Facebook again this year. I have once again recognized at least one thing for which to be thankful every day of the past year. Don’t worry, I won’t list them all this time. Instead, I will just share with you my thank you list for the past two days.

    THANK YOU TO…

    … Meteorologists for warning us over and over and over again to expect several inches of lake effect snow. You were finally right!

    … The PWROG Training Task Team for scheduling the first day of your first meeting to coincide with the first big lake effect snowstorm of the year.

    … The snowplow driver who left a bonus strip of sod approximately four blocks long in the usual mountain of snow at the bottom of the driveway.

    … The village snowmobile brigade for driving across the edge of the yard and the bottom of the driveway and making sure that mountain of snow and sod got packed down into a tightly compressed, two-foot high mound.

    … Hulu and MeTV for showing reruns of Emergency! which allowed me to immediately recognize (and have the experience of shouting aloud), “I need a pry bar!”

    … Snow shovel manufacturers for making snow shovels versatile enough to shovel snow, scrape ice, and cut and pry frozen strips of sod.

    … The late but very much remembered Verna Floyd from Charleston, Arkansas for knitting me that cap in 1976. It is a miracle of durability, warmth and non-itchiness.

    snow gear

    … My old gloves for keeping my hands slightly warm and somewhat dry.

    … Bog boots for keeping my feet warm and dry.

    … My daughter for leaving her boot jack behind when she moved out so I can get the damn Bogs off my feet.

    … The Amish for creating friendship bread for those times when I am too exhausted to make toast.

    … The makers of lactose-free milk for making it possible to dunk stale friendship bread without dire consequences.

    … All manufacturers of extra-strength Acetaminophen.

    … Culvers, for making butter burgers to replace all those calories I lost, and for offering caffeine-free soft drinks to go with the butter burgers (because too much caffeine is bad for you).

Comments (6)

  • I need a boot jack....or bigger bog boots =/

    p.s. if you fall in the creek with your bog boots on and said boots fill with water, your husband will complain about the 30+ minutes it takes to pull the boots off your cold wet feet.

    • Haha! Val and I will have to avoid geocaching near water if we ever manage to get together before spring.

  • Hahaha -- it sounds like the first day of winter! It's beautiful here -- 88 this noon when I pulled into my garage after having a tooth pulled!

  • Haha!! I wish I had been there. I would have gladly pried sod if the end goal was a Culver's run! I like the looks of the bog boots - how are they different from the pretty rubber boots at Meijer's?

    • Bogs is the brand. They are supposed to keep your feet warm in temps as low as -40 degrees. Great for tromping through the snow, but too hard to get on and off for a quick trip outside to roll the garbage can down to the street. I dug my leaky old boots out of the basement to do that.

  • I like the blue in the boots.
    The hat looks like the type my mother used to make and have all the females in my family wear when I was young(pop-pom and all)

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