I meant to blog these stories sooner, but you know how that goes.
Anyway, here it is the middle of February and now is the time to start thinking gardens and seeds.
But, better late than never on my stories.
I have already wrote that Tim's dad passed away 4 weeks ago on January 19. (see my Jan. 28 post, Tribute to a Patriarch)
Well, that was a messy, snowy, icy week for us here in Middle Tennessee. The Illinois snowy mess didn't count that week, being that their roads were clear.
Elise and Gabriel were driving up on Thursday, the 20th with a gooseneck trailer loaded full of their belongings.
Gabriel was going to stay at our place and take care of the animals, milk the cow, etc. while Elise rode up to Illinois with us to her Grandpa's funeral.
It's normally a 12 hour drive from their house in Texas to our house here in Tennessee.
But they were going a little slower due to the trailer full of belongings they were hauling.
I believe before they got to Memphis, it was raining. Then the temperature started dropping making the roads icy, turning into snow.
Elise texted me now and then on their progress.
Starting off with, "We're gonna be pretty late."
At one point they were going 5 miles per hour on Interstate 40 outside of Memphis.
People were in the ditch, stopped up on the ramps, big rigs jack-knifed.
Once, their truck started sliding backwards until Gabe got it on the shoulder where he could get some traction on the snow.
The roads got a little bit better and around midnight they called. Their truck couldn't make it up the slick hill about 1/2 mile from our house.
Tim and Jordon went out with our trusty 4-wheel drive truck and pulled them far enough up the hill until they could get some traction on their own.
Their 12 hour trip turned into 17 or 18 hour trip.
They got here safe and sound except for weariness and worn out nerves.
We got to bed around 1 a.m. and got up a few hours later and left around 6 a.m. for the 8 hour drive to Illinois.
There were some bad spots of ice and snow here and there until we got into Kentucky.
After that, it was smooth driving.
We came back Sunday evening and then started the adventure of unloading Gabriel's trailer and finding a place for some of their things until they could get a storage trailer.
These last 3 pictures were taken February 9, 2011
5 min later
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