Man, it's been a long one for sure...MPeasy went to Helena just as the winterapocalypse set in. The family was getting mom into an assisted living place and I decided to stay and play the guitar and.....well....that was about the entire plan. So on Saturday I get a call that the Phizer vaccine will be given to everybody at Legacy Senior living as well as family and frequent visitors. So, I spent Super Bowl Sunday jacking up the old white truck and putting on the studded snow tires that haven't been on it in ten years. Of course one thing leads to another and the starter froze up in mid tire effort so me and the neighbor Josh had to change that out as well. So I drive from balmy Hamilton to -20 Helena and we have a reunion and wake up the morning of our vaccine with no heat in MP's moms house....yikes... Turns out the exhaust of the new high efficient furnace was broken and in the extreme cold the intake was sucking in the exhaust and shutting down the system. So Tom and I Mcguivered a fix and walla, shots done, furnace fixed , garage cleaned out to park our car, new tires, new starter and a trip to the Casino. Perfect.
It's no news to anybody that more than 1/2 of the USA is experiencing extreme winter weather. Here it was Winter Storm Uri and now it's Winter Storm Viola soon to be followed by Winter Strom Get me the $@#%&* out of here... Ya know in Alaska they don't personalize the winter by naming it. Instead they just blame it on the Russians as it's usually a Siberian Front that is responsible and Alaskans go about the business of dealing with the Polar Vortex or the Mega High or the Aluetian trough. But here in Montana it's just sooooo exciting. Every morning I wake up to old smiley here and garner some real world survival skills from him. I kid you not , he told us the other morning the best way to stay warm is to stay inside.
I've driven through a few blizzards. In fact just a couple weeks ago we had a class 9 through Utah and of course between Anchorage and Soldotna I almost stopped the car in a whiteout in the Portage area returning from the Great Alaska Shootout...of course that was shortly after Sam got car sick and threw up a Hostess Pink Snowball into a frisbee right behind the drivers seat...you get the point, it's stressful and the blizzard on the way to Helena was a class 8 I'd guess. I stopped to help a couple cars that parked in the ditch and were way to stuck for me to do much except make sure the ladies stayed safe and the usual Hamilton-Helena 2 and 1/2 hour trip was 4 and 1/2 hours....But we got the shots and there's light at the end of the tunnel, and it ain't a train. In two more weeks we'll get our second shot and receive our get out of jail free card and just maybe we can go from this.
to this.
But being Alaskan as the rest of Hamy and Stevi were in lock down we drove to Stevi to shop at the Mennonite store because we have nice new studded tires and we just love shopping there. We drove the old highway and stopped for our tradition of eating Jalepeno Poppers as we drive and reflect on the winter scene. I love the ' snow snakes ' that the wind drives across the road. Here's the scenes which was really kind of in between flurries.
As I type MP's waiting for me to finish so we can get our daily 3 mile morning in... You've heard me say it a million times, ' ya just gotta want to do it "....and little old fashion tuff has to come into play as well. Geno used to say ' Christ hates a coward '...lets ALL carry on.
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