"We Ain't Going Nowhere, Ma!"

"We ain't going nowhere, ma". That's pretty much what R said when he finally got home this evening. We're having an early Christmas blizzard and it just keeps pounding us. I'd guess we have close to a foot of snow now, but when he came home, one of our roads had three foot drifts. It took him more than 30 minutes to travel just a few miles...and he was in the "big" pickup. The brute. The one we can always count on to get us around. The one that sometimes gets us in trouble because it takes us places we shouldn't be going. THAT pickup. Hmmm, so how in the hell am I going to get to work tomorrow?

I didn't take the chance of going in today and I'm worried about missing another day. One of my co-workers called this afternoon to see if she could hitch a ride with me tomorrow. She drives a Sunfire that has all of three inches of ground clearance. She's on my way and I'll be happy to take her *if* we're able to go.

Since I've talked to her, they've closed all but two roads in this half of the state. I didn't go to work partially because I was worried they would close the roads while I was there and I didn't want to get stuck in town. Figures they didn't shut down the roads until I would have already been on my way home. Now everything is shutting down, even the post office! I knew we wouldn't have mail delivery clear out here in the middle of nowhere, but to stop the postal service in the entire eastern half of the state? That doesn't happen every day.

Now I'm sitting here listening to the wind. It's been blowing all day, but not howling. This could be bad. Really bad. R's worried about the cows. Storms like this can be really hard on cattle. Thankfully we don't have any that are close to having calves. As long as *I* don't try to have my little calf early, we'll be in good shape!