Ice and snow

Yesterday morning, we woke up to a world covered with shiny, slippery ice. Jonathan was happy to get a day off of school, and I was able to postpone my morning inspection until the afternoon, so it was not much of an inconvenience.

Laura, a friend of ours from church, is a great photographer. You can see a pretty picture she took of the ice on her blog:

http://dooalot.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/ice-ice-baby/

Today, we were surprised with about an inch of snow on top of the re-frozen ice, so Jonathan got to sleep in one more time. I was not so lucky - I was supposed to be in Louisville by 8am for a construction meeting that could not be postponed, so I struggled out the door at 6am and slid down the street in my car. Fortunately, once I got to Man O' War, the roads were much better, and once I got to the interstate, the roads were pretty much clear. After Louisville, I took a lovely detour to the little-known town of Powderly, KY, for another inspection, then finally made my way back home around dinnertime. Ugh!

Fortunately, David is a stay-at-home dad, so we don't have to make last-minute arrangements for Elizabeth when her school is cancelled, and she gets to play in the snow. When Jonathan woke up, he took both of them sledding on Stonewall Hill. Sure, we didn't have much snow, but it was still pretty icy, so the sledding was still very good. Elizabeth's all about being a big girl now, so of course, she wanted to sled down the hill by herself. They had a few test runs, then Jonathan gave her a big push. The plan was for David to catch her halfway down, but he missed! So, she got to go much faster and longer than he intended. Here's the heart-stopping video:



As you can hear, he actually got pretty nervous - mainly because there's a big creek and large trees at the bottom of the hill that she was barrelling toward very quickly! But, she stopped before she reached them and she was apparently oblivious to the danger, because, as you can hear on the video, she just cackled and giggled all the way down. And, as soon as David caught up to her, she was asking to go down again!