snow

Monday was a snow day! I had lots of fun. Yes I am standing and trying to face you in the picture. It is fun to try to crawl through deep, powdery snow. It is challanging!

Over the weekend, we had gotten about 18 inches, so that would make something close to four feet of snow. Then Tuesday we got more snow. Maybe seven inches? Enough that my parents didn't think I could drive all the way home from college, so I stayed with a friend in town. But I got home today (Wednesday) safely, thank God.
On my drive out Tuesday morning, we saw two moose. It looked like a moose mother and a moose child. Appearently they like to walk in a line so that it looks like there is just one.

Well, this is the best snow picture of the house for now (taken today!). See all the snow (and the ladder on the edge and two shovel handles) on the roof? And then there is piled up snow from shoveling the driveway and whatever else was shoveled onto the pile. (If I was farther away, maybe the snow would look a little shorter.)

Snow Pictures

I tried to measure how much snow we had last Sunday. It was somewhere around 30 inches. It is snowing again tonight. I think we have had four or five more inches already. I hope that I can still get to church in time to play my part in the bell song tomorrow.

My Dad just told me that the new snow was "at least eight inches. And it's snowing an inch an hour." So much for bell playing. I don't think the roads between me and the highway will be plowed in time.

I did have fun playing in the snow last Sunday.

The beach. It's pretty obviously far from PR, huh. It has it's own beauty.

Stop

If you find stop-lights/signs boring, then I recommend you drive somewhere where there is snow, ice, slush, and a combination of these. The variations are amazing. In addition to the traditional Stop.....go....., here are some other options:

Slide.......stop. Go.

Slide.... stop. Try to go, but spin your tires. (You have chains for your tires in your trunk, right?)

Slide.... stop near the top of the hill. Slide backwards, finally go forwards.

Brake, brake, brake, slide..... So much for that stop sign. (This is a dangerous option and not law-abiding.)

Brake, brake, brake, brake, (brake, brake, brake,) stop. Spin.... inch along.... Go.

Brake, brake, brake, stop. Go/slide/go (sigh of relief).

Probably the options with the longest lasting influence are more like this:

Brake, brake, slide, stop. Is the car behind me going to stop in time? Bump.

Or possibly more expensive (for you):

Brake, brake, slide, bump, stop. (I don't recommend it: I prefer leaving too much stopping distance than too little.)

As I was saying, there is great variety.

hungry and hurried

The spring semester has begun, but right now it is winter. Yesterday, it was 8 degrees Fahrenheit outside my home in the morning.

I am hungry and waiting on some online class's screen to look like I think it should so that I can go eat lunch. I think I will quit waiting soon, close it, and go eat. I am hungry and I have a class in less than an hour.

So appearently I'm not going to say anything super profound right now because I am hungry and hurried.

I hope that you are having a good day.

My brothers made me a snow man! And it won't melt (unless there's a forest fire or something) because they made it of fabric and such. Isn't it cute?

Some things change, some things relocate.

The roads! Here is the road in front of our house. (Okay, I usually drive the other way from our driveway instead of driving this way, but the snow is on both sides of the driveway.)
Above is the picture that you probably saw before so that you can understand the more recent picture below of the same place.

The newest snow pictures are from a week ago. Right now it is melting, but we have LOTS of snow left to melt.

School has started again! Hurray! The tutor training class starts before regular classes (and hopefully is mostly finished before regular classes!). And I started reading a Psychology text book. I'm hoping I can study it myself and then take a test and get credit for it... The text book has been pretty interesting so far. I only have maybe 39 1/2 chapters left...

Happy January!

2008

It is the new year and I have a new voice... well, a distorted voice, maybe? I have a cold, and it is a voice-influencing cold. So it is a temporary difficulty.

The internet part of my one class that starts early (hopefully is mostly done before the other classes start?) is scheduled to start tomorrow. I am excited.

Happen I left Puerto Rico, I struggled. I think one issue had to do with whether I would know God here like I did in Puerto Rico. Does He still work in little miracles, made just right so that I would get them, communication made for me, specifically? Will He still answer when I seek Him (whether right away or later)? Will He still be as real to me here as He was in Puerto Rico?

God is real, and He is here as well as in Puerto Rico. He still works things out in that way that He does. So if you move, like I did, then wait and seek. Because your technical knowledge that He isn't just limited to one place is accurate. You might wait, but wait with sure hope.