Continuing with the theme of my previous post, brrr it's still cold! Yesterday (Wednesday 12/17), the Seattle School District in a knee-jerk reaction to the dire weather predictions for Wednesday, cancelled school. Sadly, they were left with egg on their faces (which is what you get when you beleive the weather forecasters here who couldn't get it right even if they looked out the window!) For while it was bitterly cold, the expected snowfall failed to appear. It DID snow everywhere BUT Seattle in all directions. Kind of like a reverse snow globe with the globe over Seattle and the snow falling all around. It left everyone scratching their heads in wonderment. Today, the District is vindicated! Somewhere around 4am it started to snow. (How do I know you may wonder. It involves Cooper and throwing up all night, nothing more needs to be said.) It has continued to snow all day since then. This may look like a pittance to people who live in real snow country but for Seattle it is catastrophic. We are just not prepared to handle it. The bad part of the white fluffy stuff is that under it is always ice. That is the real problem. Now they haven't officially cancelled school tomorrow. But given the fact that there really is snow (unlike Wednesday when there was none) and it won't be going anywhere, anytime soon I am sure that Winter Break has already begun for the kids. (Pictures: fencepost in back yard, front of house, Tucker's adandoned garbage truck in the back yard)
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Nice Pics! So....what's this about one of the boys breaking an arm??? Spencer (?) posted something to that effect on facebook late last night?
No broken arm, but perhaps some ligament tearing or a bone chipped off. Regardless it was about a 3 hour visit to the ER last night around 10:30. He has his arm in a splint until Tuesday when he will see the regular doctor to see if anything more needs to be done. He was walking home from sledding across the street.
Why did Tucker have a garbage truck in the back yard?
How long has that garbage truck been abandoned?
That truck is just plain awesome!
That garbage truck has been in our sideyard probably since we moved here 15 years ago. Tucker used to ride it when he was a little guy! (The garbage container part tilts just like a regular truck, leaving a nice little spot between it and the cab for a little bottom.) Obviously it's been awhile since he rode it!
I must say we're jealous of all the snow...even though it seems to be wreaking havoc on all things Seattle. Hey, if the Subaru ever breaks down perhaps Tucker can brush off the old garbage truck...sweet ride!
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