Another Snow Day!

Monday, Tuesday, and now Friday this week have been snow days. In my nine years of working for the school district, we have never had snow days the week before "Winter Break", especially three in one week. Yesterday it was raining and the roads were clear, but we still had lots of calls from parents asking if there was school. Even had a call from a parent saying she was keeping her child out for the next two days just in case. She got mad and hung up on me when I kindly advised her that would not be an excused absence. Then there was a prank call from a staff member in the staff room with all the people at lunch listening in, trying not to laugh too loud. It was snowing at the time, and he plugged his nose and pretended to be a very stupid parent, insisting that a teacher drive his children home because we really should close early. I thought it sounded somewhat like this staff member, but couldn't take a chance of calling him out so I was very polite and convinced him that his children would be safe to ride the bus home two hours later at the usual time. Quite possibly this call was the great idea of my nice new friend Cindy, who happened to be on her lunch break at the time.

Much to the joy of Nick and many other students, it started snowing last night and continued enough to cancel school again today. Here is what it looks like out our window this morning. I know you northerners are laughing, but hey, there's at least two inches out there!

The weather has prevented Will from taking the camping trip he had planned in celebration of his vacation pending retirement, but he has made good use of his time. He installed a bird feeder and has the birding books out. Retired people have time for such things!

The birds are all over it!

A dove came and stared at us for awhile. I'm sure it was thanking Will for its food. Let it snow!