On Wednesday the sleet start at 7:30AM when I was getting back from the barn so no trash run to be done. By 8:30 it has started to get bad. Tom had brought his daughter to work at the horse farm on my road and said it was a little dicey driving.
But on the way home from dropping her off, it took him an hour to do a 20 minute drive. The roads were completely impassable, lined on the sides on both sides with cars as far as he could see. No salting/sanding in preparation for the storm had been done and there were dozens and dozens of accidents.
It wasn’t until a private sander came down the road that things got better. Then a state sander came down followed by an ambulance. Once that started to work, the traffic slowly was able to start moving again. He said it took him an hour to relax from the ordeal when he got home.
As he was texting me about this I started, finally, seeing notices from various towns coming through saying stay off the roads. Too little, too late. I’d already told the carpenter’s helper to stay home.
But the carpenter had to go out to a local store 2 miles away to get more adhesive for the tile work. It took him a long time, but he made it without incident. By noon the temperature had risen enough the ice had all melted.
I spent the morning doing tile with him and not much else besides another layer of fluffing on the tree and loading the woodstove periodically.
For lunch I had some of the French toast I’d made a while back and frozen. With it I had the elderberry jam the carpenter’s wife had made from my elderberries. She’d given me a jar for Christmas.
On Thursday I will be getting the old bedroom ready for painting with the carpenter’s helper and working on the tree. I need to get that tree done and out of my office so I can start exercising again, in addition to doing the treadmill. I will also have the helper bring down the Christmas boxes as I will be starting to take down the Christmas stuff and the tree as we are now past the Twelfth Night.