Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Enough already!

Last Friday, we had freezing rain/ice pellets that lasted off and on through Sunday. Monday we were out of school for MLK day. It's now Wednesday night and we haven't been back to school. The soonest we'll go back is Friday, but then we could get 5-10 inches of snow this weekend and be out of school on Monday.
This is crazy-I don't remember having this many snow days in a row when I was a kid, and we lived out in the country. I recall a huge snowstorm when I was in kindergarten. I think they let us out early (being a stand alone school district--K-12, they could do that). Anyhow, my school bus got stuck in a big drift about a mile from our house (near where I would run the Scout into a ditch about 12 years later). This was before the time of cell phones! So, an area farmer (Mr. Standridge) brought his big John Deere to the bus and the remaining 3 or 4 students got to ride a tractor the rest of the way home. I would imagine today that there would be way too many liability concerns for us to have even looked at that tractor. Besides, with every kid having a cell phone (so it seems), we would have just called our parents and had them come get us.

2 comments:

Jennifer said...

Another snow day for us tomorrow. Crazy!

So, I think I'm going with my parent to either go have a Meer's burger or fried catfish at Doug's Peach Orchard (Just N. of the Red River on 81)

Jennifer said...

Yes, I got my Meer's burger today! The big one...minus the cheese as I wanted to go lightly. :) We also shared some peach and cherry cobbler w/ their homemade ice cream. My only complaint was that it was about 60 degrees inside the restaurant. Chairs were cold. Toilet seat was colder.

I know of the Riverside Cafe. We were heading there on bikes in late 2002 when we saw Meer's was packed and then my parents hit rocks and slid and . . . mom was care flighted to Lawton hospital, she and dad both got 14 staples in their head, and I was traumatized such that I haven't ridden again! It happened about 1/2 mile past Meer's heading down and around the first curve.