Off to see GS#3 for his Christmas and get out of town for a few days… didn’t leave as early as normal but was ok, still got in about the same time? strange how that works. Heading north on I-35 we passed several remnants of the last few days storm… wasn’t much snow but could tell there had been plenty of ice, and this is the outcome of that or a few of what I saw…
Was a bit of fog in spots but nothing serious… what appears to be snow is mostly just ice on the side of the road…
Missed the corner by a bunch? or something?… on ramp south of Tonkawa…
I guess when you don’t have any other way to anchor the poles that are falling down you tie them off to a big truck…
I can bet that driver will have a lot of sh_t to clean out of that cab… from all indication he was in the south bound lanes and came through the cable fence barrier ( guess that is only good for cars)… went through the middle depression which is probably a 4 ft. drop in the middle across a 25 ft. grass ditch… then flew across the North bound lanes and through the mud in the east side ditch and into the farmers field (taking out his fence too)… Had it been me… would have taken hours to pry my fingers from the wheel but I am sure the seat was lubricated well enough to slide out…
The rest of out drive was un-eventful other than the usual people in the middle of the road, odd occurrences at rest stops and other things… not worth mentioning again…
Got in and immediately had a little Christmas so GS#3 could get down for a nap… so he did get to tear open some packages…
He seemed to have the tearing open stuff down pretty good… it also appears he did well for Christmas… got a big plastic jeep with a horn… and a small digger truck, and plenty of other stuff…
But it appears with him, it makes no difference, he is always happy… and likes to pose for pictures…
The older folks talked and got pizza while he napped and then when he got back up… he found some snow boots that just had to be tried out… I think they were a bit big?
It was a damn long day… 10 hours on the road and a few more celebrating and that is enough… time for some rest…
WD0AJG