After eating at my favorite Mongolian restaurant across from the convention center, we met up with an Alyssa, an old student who is currently subbing in the Austin school district. She knows all the great little cafes so we chatted until rush hour died down and ate the most delicious carrot cake and loads of hot tea. She was one of the smartest, funniest and most creative kids I ever had taught so it was quite funny to sit across a beautiful, tall, elegant, and focused young lady who is, besides teaching, working with an animal rescue group. Ahhh, the time goes by so fast.
Then on Friday we had the snowstorm. 12.5" and it was beautiful. It was the most snow in Dallas since 1964 and we broke the record for inches. So school was closed, and it was a good thing since I was not taking my life in my hands to drive to Dallas. We do not have a snow removal system, so the best they can do is sprinkle some sand over the overpasses. The Dept. of Transportation always starts up north (where the wealth lies) and we get the leftovers in south Dallas County. I have to go over countless overpasses to get into Dallas, none of which will be sanded. Pictures below:
We did lose about a third of our huge Live Oak tree and today the lawn men are piling up the branches in front of the house. The next door neighbor has one of the major limbs of his Live Oak laying on his roof. His fared worse than ours. All down the streets were the Live Oaks decimated. They are evergreens so the leaves were just snow catchers and the snow was so wet and heavy. I do hope it comes back. The palm in the back is just brown....not much hope for it.
And it is Valentine;s Day (I can not use the apostrophe key today...it goes to the find button so bear with me). Dear friend Michele called to say she is having surgery tomorrow as she fell over the dog and broke her wrist yesterday. It is not funny, but it is a bit because her husband, Steve, is having shoulder surgery the 24th of this month to repair the rotator cuff that he broke when he fell over the same dog on Christmas Eve. Good thing the dog is cute, but he's about 6 months old and a chocolate lab so he is just full of legs!
I finished the February (and Jan.) San-Man monthly SAL and I'm doing it on one piece of Aida. I miscounted somewhere because the Hershey Kiss is one stitch higher than the Jan. cup. I don't know to fix it or not. It's not noticeable, but then again, it sorta is. Sigh....more frogging, as if I don't do enough.
Bob is continuing to improve since his surgery last week. He's back to normal and we hope this is the end of it.
I am so jealous of your snow. Amazing how snow is a "fun" thing now that I live in TX. It definitely wasn't much fun in IN. Where is your snowman though?
ReplyDeleteBarb in TX