towed by a tractor

i bet not too many of you can say that you've been towed out of a snow drift by a tractor. well, i now can! after the BITTER frigidity of last week, i decided to head to the farm to escape the indoors and for a change of scene. i can't say how happy i am to spend time with grandma milly and grandpa marv on a weekly basis. i spent the night out there friday night and planned on leaving saturday early evening. saturday i "attempted" to "set" grandma's hair. (epic fail). i know that i was never destined to be a hair dresser. haha. hey i tried.

anyways. grandma needed to run into town for an errand and asked if i would drive her. we hopped into grandpa's ford 500 and started driving into town. (let me tell you that the wind had picked up early in the AM and the snow piles had started to drift all over the roads...) this was making me EXTREMELY nervous as we drove down the country gravel roads and the drifts across the road were growing larger... we made it in to town safe and sound, and an hour later we were ready to head back. can i tell you that the entire time we were in town i was having partial panic attacks just thinking about how bad the roads were going to be on our way back to the farm. i have my 81 year old grandma in the passenger seat and i'm praying that we make it. well, 3/4 the way there... we hit a white out. "white out = you can't see anything". i'm driving about 3 mph desperately trying not to go into a ditch that i can't see because its covered by snow, but i know its there. directly in front of me on the road is probably at least 6 inches of snow because of the wind picking up and i know we aren't gonna make it. surprise surprise, we can't make it through. we are now stuck in the middle of a country road in a white out. thankfully the farm is about 1/4 mile down the road and grandpa marv is home. we call him on the cell to ask him to please rescue us. grandma thought he'd bring the truck and just steer for me and take us out of this mess. 15 minutes later we see a huge john deere tractor pulling up through the whiteness. SWEET. i'm going to get pulled out of the snow drift by a tractor. that made my day. grandpa chains us up to the tractor and pulls us out. : ) we make it home safe and sound and i immediately get bruce and drive home. thank heaven for 4x4.

i found an amazing church last week that i visited, "cedar heights baptist church" that i visited today as well. it feels like home and i'm really thankful to be there. the people are super nice and i think i've found my home church.

not too much else going on. its MUCH warmer today, high of 28!! tomorrow i'm participating in the martin luther king jr. day service challenge through school so that should be cool.

off to read some pharmacology...