Maybe they were afraid you might drop a box of guns and ammo, shivs, or maybe just metal files.

If it were a comedy they would drop some 9mm hand spoons and .45ACP ammo for them.

30* and 8" of snow so far. When I left they had not plowed our road so I had to take the truck. It is only 2wd but has Blizzaks on it and the car would not have the clearance to make the 1/2 mile to the highway. I had to clear the 8" of snow off the driveway first.

So David, last kid in HS or college? I have a great memory, but it isn't very long sorry.

Jeff, is it ever not hot and humid this time of year there?

Brent. He is in high school. The graduation walk is a fixed date but he might have to do Saturday school to get the diploma.

Sounds like our oldest. She gets things done when she gets them done. Our youngest gets things done as quick as he can so he gets a long weekend.

They are online schooled.

They only have so many snow days and they might have used them all up. WA state law says that the number of days the kids are in school can be over looked but not the total hours of instruction time. So in one districts case they are looking at Saturday school for seniors to make up the snow plus a strike time.

We are both (my business partner and I) way too cheap and greedy to toss out guns and ammo, we just keep em fer ourselves. Tossing out something to land in the yard from 3,000 feet while moving at 100 knots or more and hitting the place you want would be real challenge anyway.

At my old job in the photolab, most every task had a production time. So many employees would see they had two more days to get a print or something done, and wait until that day to do it, and then find it was a three day task for a real reason, like 10 prints each of 40 negatives, and then miss the deadline.

I always attacked my production pieces right away, and tried to get it done before it was due. I fired more than a few procrastinators.

We have early release or delayed starts so they don't have to make up days later. Must be slightly different laws. Then again, we probably get a smidge more snow here.

When we were in Fairbanks, Alaska we took a bus tour of the area. They picked us up from the train station and took us to a hotel. I asked the driver if they had snow days for school kids. He laughed, and said there is always snow on the ground, all winter. He said some days it is 50 below zero and the ice fog started from the exhaust of vehicles, and it does not vanish, it lingers and gets thicker as more vehicles drive around. He said with minus 50, thick ice fog and several inches of fresh snow, they still have school. If they didn't school would be a few months of summer and have to end. We all agreed we did NOT want to move there.

My brother said the schools in Montgomery closed once again on a forecast of snow, and not one flake fell, just rain.

When we had enough snow to effect school, I was too young to care when the last day of school actually was. Seemed like ages until summer break anyway.

Schools here were canceled today. They did not decide until 5:30 this morning though since they wait to see if the roads are actually bad.

yeah they never factor in more than one or two days for snow here and then bam we get a huge storm and now we wait for the fall out.

the sissy here calls it the night before and the roads are wet with slush today.

A couple weeks ago they canceled the night before, but we got almost an inch of freezing rain that night.

(Geezer voice) Why back in the my day!......

I remember the one year I went to school in Oklahoma, it was in 1967. We had a big ice storm, the pavement was slick as snot. We always rode our bikes to school. We listened intently to the radio and there was no announcement for closed school. Dang it, so off we went. I can testify, riding a bicycle on ice is difficult, real difficult. School was 20 or 30 miles away all up hill... No wait that was my dad. School was just about a mile away. I had 17 crashes on my bike in the mile. The good news is with ice, there is no way to get road rash. Ya fall over, and slide. Hopefully into a curb and not the traffic. We finally got to school and a notice was posted, no school today. Whooo Hoooo. We started for home, but decided to go the the local drug store to check out the newest comic books, and get some candy with our lunch money. We played outside for hours and rode our bikes an I got pretty good on the ice. The bonus was to find a spot were a car had been the night before, and the ground was ice free. We could stop and talk to other kids. We finally got back home about noon looking for lunch. Mom was not happy we had not come straight home. She was worried we had been run over or hurt. Nope, just boys out having fun.

I had over 20 crashes that day, and not one bit of bleeding. Of course no helmet. I don't remember and injuries, just crash and slide and laughing. Ah to be a kid.

Probably why you don't remember the injuries! :D

Rode our bikes to a nearby frozen large pond. Got going fast, jumped off the bike and skitched holding our bikes. When slowed down but not quite stopped, hop back on the bike, turn around and do it again.

Did the same thing on icy roads when in HS with the station wagon.

One deep snow a road had a pretty deep bar ditch that went into a culvert. IThe snow, and drifting snow made the area area look flat, but the bar ditch was about 7 ft deep. Stopped the car, ran and jumped in the middle of the bar ditch, disappearing in the snow that looked flat and even with the curb. Crouched down and ran into the culvert making a tunnel under the snow. Then skittered into the culvert until I bumped into a ladder going up the side with a lid. Slid the man hole open and popped up out of the hole. Freaked everyone out. It was like I disappeared into about 6 inches of snow, then popped up 30-40 ft away. Of course, then everyone had to pile out and jump in the snow filled bar ditch.

We also had a local lake freeze over. A friend and I walked across the lake. Ever so often we dug a hole to see how thick the ice was. It was thicker than our tire iron was long. might not sound like a big deal to northerners, but in Oklahoma we thought it was really daring.

Tomorrow...hot, humid, bugs. I’ll be California Dreamin’ all day.

I grew up in the Leave it to Beaver era. No one had a bike helmet. I don't know if they existed. I had many epic bike crashes, and still have scars from them. One crash was so bad I was laying there next to the road as cars drove past. I figured someone would stop to help. Nope, after 5 minutes I finally extracted myself from under the bike, and pedaled it with a bent handlebars and pedals right to the hospital. I walked in dripping blood. It was on base, so a military hospital of course where all family members waited in line. The lady in front of me had a runny nose and said to the nurse, "I think this kid need help more than me" and the nurse came out and took me to a room, to bleed on a exam table.

Sice I was a kid they could do little more that let me sit there. They called my parents and they gave permission to fix me up. No exaggeration, 100% fact, they gave me a "stick" to bite on, and attacked my abrasions with iodine and gauze, which felt like steel wool and Mr. Clean. I knew I was in for pain when they stuck the dowel in my mouth and four orderlies came in and held me down. I was a boy, so I survived with nothing but scars.

Morning all. Another day off from school for the kids. I want to go back to school I think. NOT!!!

It is 50 degrees and blue skies here. We get back to cloudy and crummy February weather next week.

I boxed up the clock on my 911 yesterday to send it in to get rebuilt. It works sometimes, but not all the time. I don't pay that much attention to it, but I like 100% of my cars to work as designed, or better than designed. The fuel injection on the Elky and the AC upgrade on the 911 both are orders of magnitude better than factory stock.