We woke up to snow - about 6 inches of the white stuff covered everything. It had started snowing by the time we went to bed last night and it has snowed all night. It is still snowing now (9am). Bill went out and shoveled the walk but he was too late for our upstairs neighbors – they were out there at 6am in the heavy snow smoking. The rule in this apartment building is no smoking indoors. There is an elderly gentleman down on the ground floor who goes out all times of the day and night to smoke.
The people here put their windshield wipers up and away from their windshields when it snows. This is a good idea because the ice forms and welds the wipers to the windshield and then when you want to drive away, you cannot do so and use the wipers to clear off the newly fallen snow………….I never thought of that before, but then in Prescott we have our vehicles parked in the garage. At these apartment blocks here there is no covered parking available. Even in Phoenix, they have covered parking for some cars to protect the car from the blazing sun and the hope is that it will not be quite so hot in the car when you get in at the end of the day to drive home. Fat chance when the temperature is 110+ degrees – it matters not much whether you are parked under a tree, covered park or out in the open…..it is just a matter of how quickly you’re a/c can cool the car so that you can live.
The presiding officers of our congregation decided to only hold the sacrament worship service today so that we could go home early and be able to get there before the snow got too bad. Well, the snow tapered off and by the time we finished our worship service it had pretty much stopped.
As we were leaving, we met a man we had not seen since our Johnstown Days. He is now in the stake presidency and is a physician 40 miles away from where we live. I was overjoyed to see him. What a happy day this turned out to be. He was serving as a missionary in Johnstown when our children were quite small and we visited him and his wife a couple of years later when we visited Salt Lake City in 1984.
When you are a member of this church, the world just shrinks in size with each reunion with friends.
This is the scene through our Bedroom window. This was before anything got a chance to melt.The hooded figure is Bill Markham shoveling snow - what a good doobie he is!
.Bill talking to elder Alan Barker of the Augusta Maine Stake Presidency.
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