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LOL Well, sometimes being too prepared just doesn’t help.

As you may have heard, that nice 65º weather when I planted the oats didn’t last...

As of this morning, 10” of snow and temperature about 21º - going down to 11º tonight.

Thought I would get out and see how the neighbors were doing, and had some checks to deposit in the bank... Well, I was prepared for the snow - Jeep did great - drove all the way into town and both banks were closed...

Thought I would treat daughter to an ice cream cone - they too were closed...

Of course daughter declared hey, why do I have school today (homeschool) and everything else is closed...

Checked on the neighbors (all OK)

Had to drive around 4 cars that were abandoned right in the roadway - 5 more were in the ditches and abandoned. (love my 4 wheel drives). Snow drifting quite a bit as the wind is 20 to 30 mph.

So, prepared as I am, still couldn’t do the things I wanted to do (bank and ice cream) because others weren’t prepared - Guess I need to keep that in mind if TSHTF.

So, daughter said ‘Hey Dad, can we just go home and you can make a real big batch of that homemade fudge...

LOL It is nice to be prepared... Is this roughing it?

There are some things we miss though...

Yesterday before the storm, my wife said - ‘You know, I keep feeling that I should rush to the store and grab eggs, bread, milk and stuff like we used to, and like everyone else is.’ She said she thought and thought and couldn’t think of anything we needed to get.

Maybe we should just have gone to socialize with all those unprepared souls.... Maybe I could print out some cards with Granny’s threads address, and I could hand them out at the store. LOL

Well, venison stew is cooking - maybe while the yeast rolls rise I can teach daughter to make that fudge...

Life is good!

Oh, I dismissed school for a half snow day - Daughter is now happy!