Messed Up Weekend

This last weekend was nasty.We had snow and wind something awful. It snowed about 1 foot and blew around 30-40 mph. We had drifts 3-4 foot high. The results were closed roads, downed branches, and no electricity. We were the lucky ones though because we didn't have trees close to our trailers but we were still protected from the worst of the wind and our electricity wasn't affected.

From our trailer. You can't really see how hard the wind is blowing.
It's supper wet snow. It started melting when you walked on it.

Look at the trees, you can see how hard it is blowing. This is looking from the trailer.
It was blowing so hard we almost couldn't open the trailer door. Once it was open it was hard to get out
or in without being smashed.

Church was canceled so we stayed home and had fun together. We brought all our food to the Lodge and had a nice lunch. The rest of the day we relaxed. It was really good for the Gardners and Isome, they had been asked to give talks Sunday, needless to say they smiled all day long.

Randall, Elder and Sister Gardner and Isome having Sunday lunch together. Isome
is the Ranch intern he lives in the Lodge. (in case I haven't mentioned him before)

Monday we had to go into town to buy things for the job and the devastation was horrible. Tree branches everywhere, deep snow, it was a mess. I felt bad for the homeowners, their yards were destroyed. They had tree branches down the size of my thigh (pretty good sized). They had smashed fences, houses, shrubs. Plus the amount of water running everywhere was incredible. The Arkansas River even had water in it, it's like the Big Lost River (always dry), but the Arkansas runs even less often.

Garden City Snow plowed off the streets.

Arkansas River with water in it. I'll bet there are people who have lived
here for years and not seen water  in this river. Happy to have been
here to see this.

Elder Gardner walking to the Lodge the next day. See the drifts?
Beautiful Day!

We continue to work on the house. Randall is making a new stairway and Elder Gardner has been working on new back windows and doors. I have been tearing out all the molding and ceiling tile metal thingys downstairs.

Elder Gardner making new window in kitchen.

The other hole is for the new stairs.

Hole where the new stairs will be.

In our tearing out we have found many, many unpleasant things. Good thing is the house will be much better without them. I only took one picture of the yuck and am posting it just for remembrance. So if you don't want to see the type of yuck skim past the next picture.

Dead Rat.

Well that's it for now. Love all of you!

Good Day!