today i am thankful...
1. for the snow! beautiful white fluffiness has finally arrived! i am thankful that i live in a place that has four seasons. i don't know if i could handle every day being almost the exact same. i think i'd most likely go nuts. i need change and it seems that whenever i'm getting tired of the season, it changes. with the arrival of snow comes smiles, laughter, great holidays, the feeling of "cozy" becomes more of a reality rather than a memory, sledding, rejuvenation... ahhh! i love it!
2. that sandbags really do make a difference when put in the back of a truck. i went down to town this evening to get a better dog house for ozzie and i kept sliding. when i turned onto the main road i realized that i actually had much better control than a lot of other people on the road. even though i was doing good, i stopped at the local hardware store and got a bunch of sandbags for the truck. the drive home was amazing! i didn't slide once and i felt so much more confident and secure on the road.
3. for the opportunity to serve. i hate driving past cars that are stuck. if they're on flat ground, i'll stop and help, but if i'm on the way up a hill, i won't stop or i won't make it either and there will be two of us in the same situation. on the drive home this evening i drove past a van that had it's lights flashing and was turned on an uphill. i felt soooo guilty driving past them when i could see that they were stuck but i realized that there wasn't really too much i could do. unless they had chains, they were not going anywhere. that valley is steep going in and steep going out. as i got to the top of the hill i saw a man running on the side of the road. i figured that the angle of the road had lessened enough that i could offer him help. i was able to give him a ride to his house, about a mile away, and i learned that he had two daughters (5 and 9) that were still in the van, scared to death. he figured he could run a lot faster by himself so he left them there to run home and get what he needed. i would have been terrified if i was 5! i didn't do much except drop him off at his house, but i'm grateful that i got to help his two daughters be rescued that much quicker.
on a side note, while i was at the store checking out i got a few things
that we needed for our winter car kits and a plug for the block heater in the
car. while i was checking out the cashier said "it looks like you're
ready for a power outage." i guess that's because of the
flashlights, blanket, tow straps (??)... she motioned to the extension
cord. i told her that was for plugging the car in. she was very
confused and had no idea what i meant. i explained to her about how
extreme cold makes them hard to start in the winter, so sometimes you have to warm
up the engine with the installed block heater to get it to start. she
wondered if i drove an antique or something. haha! life is going to
be rough when she doesn't have a cozy garage to keep her car warm for
her. and then when she saw the dog house, she said that "it looks like someone
is getting booted out to the garage." i told her that no, the dog
was an outside dog and slept outside. she looked at me really oddly at
that point. that reaction is something that i regularly encounter when i
say that ozzie is an outside dog. i really didn't think it was that rare
of a thing, but i guess it is.
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