So when I logged on and saw that my last post was titled, "Winter Fun", I chuckled a little bit inside. If we didn't have to go anywhere, winter would be great. We could just grab a blanket and a book and be fine until it was spring again. Especially now that we have a huge freezer full of food.
But, since in the real world, we do have to go places during the winter, the fun-ness wore off rather quickly. With a quarter mile driveway and miles of empty corn fields on every side and strong winds and lots of dry snow and gigantic snow drifts and a 4-wheel drive F-150 with an 8-ft plow that we thought could handle whatever jack frost sent our way but turns out it can't and knowing that we'll have to park at the end of the driveway and walk through a quarter mile of snow in the morning so that we can get to our car and drive to work--with all these things, the only ray of hope was knowing that our neighbors have a huge farm tractor with a snow blower, and more importantly, knowing that they have a kind heart and that just when we think it's time to trade in 5 acres of country land for a 1 bedroom condo downtown, our good neighbors will be coming down our driveway, clearing a way for us to ironically drive downtown to go to work so that we can work towards our dream of someday being able to stay at home all winter with just a blanket and book until spring comes.
