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ellenmillion) wrote2009-03-13 10:08 am
ellenmillion) wrote2009-03-13 10:08 am
La la la...
Peppermint tea is still in transit - about a month out, but Chai tea is ready for order! Yay! You can also pre-order the peppermint at this time. I will be discontinuing the chamomile tea - plenty left in stock, but I won't be ordering more when this runs out!
(If you're on the mailing list, you might want to wait and read that before ordering for another bonus announcement...)
I had an exciting time yesterday, sliding into a snowbank in the car. I had waited until there was no traffic (because I am cautious in generally coming from the small road to the highway, and the visibility is not awesome at this intersection), and I was turning and going about 5 mph when I hit a patch of particularly icy ice. My turn seemed wrong, and I applied cautious applications of brake and gas in turn, wiggled the wheel, and thought 'hmm!' while I drifted inevitably into a snowbank at a 90 degree angle to the road. I had time to realize that there were several other indents in this same snowbank where other vehicles had done the same, before pff! I was in the snowbank. The airbag didn't go off, and I was able to pull right out of it without any trouble, no damage done. Still, it sort of rattles you to have absolutely NO control of a moving station wagon in the middle of a highway.
Worked more on the Storybook piece, but haven't scanned it yet.
Have just a little more work to do at work (2 reports) and a quick trip to OfficeMax, and an afternoon with just four orders to get out (and on replacement purse flap), and maybe some more art time.
(If you're on the mailing list, you might want to wait and read that before ordering for another bonus announcement...)
I had an exciting time yesterday, sliding into a snowbank in the car. I had waited until there was no traffic (because I am cautious in generally coming from the small road to the highway, and the visibility is not awesome at this intersection), and I was turning and going about 5 mph when I hit a patch of particularly icy ice. My turn seemed wrong, and I applied cautious applications of brake and gas in turn, wiggled the wheel, and thought 'hmm!' while I drifted inevitably into a snowbank at a 90 degree angle to the road. I had time to realize that there were several other indents in this same snowbank where other vehicles had done the same, before pff! I was in the snowbank. The airbag didn't go off, and I was able to pull right out of it without any trouble, no damage done. Still, it sort of rattles you to have absolutely NO control of a moving station wagon in the middle of a highway.
Worked more on the Storybook piece, but haven't scanned it yet.
Have just a little more work to do at work (2 reports) and a quick trip to OfficeMax, and an afternoon with just four orders to get out (and on replacement purse flap), and maybe some more art time.
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Thanks for the heads-up, though! Some of the intersections are really appalling -- I don't know what the deal was with the snowplows this last blizzard, but it got really packed down before they got around to some of the roads.
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I think people forgot what real snow was like, or how to deal with it! I know we had!
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Yeah, I'm in Fox! I have friends in Ester and I tend to wander over thataway for social events from time to time, though.
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Goldhill/Sheep Creek is another nasty intersection. And yesterday I inadvertently executed a slide turn through Airport & University.
I'll be glad when this ice is gone.
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