Pickles

We were blessed some more snow today/yesterday and our trip to Nebraska has been postponed yet again...keep your fingers crossed that this Sunday is nice for Drew's birthday party.

Anyways, this week has thrown us several pickles, so I am thankful that a new week has begun.

Tuesday morning I woke up and went straight to the sink to start my pot of coffee, as I was filling up the coffee pot I glanced out the window and notice a bright yellow piece of paper on my windshield. I tossed on my coat and ran outside to find a $25.00 parking ticket, I am thinking to myself we have parked here all winter with no problem, but apparently we were in a snow emergency and can't park on the street during snow emergencies. Later that day they issued another snow emergency, and since our driveway is only long and wide enough to fit one vehicle and our garage is full of our landlords junk (oh the joys of renting) Jeremy spent about 45 minutes outside shoveling the sides of our driveway so we both had room to park.

After the minor pickle, but a waste of $25.00, we thought the worst of the week was over, but oh no, little to our surprise, Thursday morning we woke up to find that it was only 57 degrees in the house. So my not so handy handyman husband decides to look at the heater, he reads something, unscrews something, and then says "I don't know call the landlord" (on of the joys of renting...not our problem). But, with our luck he doesn't answer, so I think "father-in-law, he knows the answer to every problem". After speaking to Bob for a minute he is sure he knows exactly what the problem is...the PBC pipe on the outside of the house is clogged with snow...easy fix. Just as Bob suspects the PBS pipe is clogged with snow, so I pulled it off the house, beat it on the sidewalk, put it back on, turned the heater switch off and then on, and felt the heat instantly.

So, here I am thinking "this is it, nothing else can happen this week...right?" Oh no no no no no...I was WRONG!

That leads us to Friday morning...Jeremy had to close Friday night and didn't have to go into work until 12:00. It has taken me some time to get use to the fact that Jeremy has to close again (never closed a single night the four years we were in North Liberty), but it is the perfect time for me to grocery shopping with no kids. I run out to start my car and it won't start and I think to myself "my fault for not starting it yesterday, but not problem I can drive Jeremy's car". I run over to his car and it won't start..."WHAT"!!! "Two cars and neither of them will start?" "You've got to be kidding me" At 4:00 Jeremy came home and got my car started and his car started at 9:30 that night.

Iowa Winters with Iowa Pickles...only 61 more days until Spring, now lets just hope that we don't get snow until April.