Good News!
I have some good news!! Susan tried again to get my car out yesterday with no luck – it was iced in even more. The client/friend I was working with yesterday offered to help us. So I took care of the downstairs child while her mom went out to help too. They moved the car and few feet and then couldn’t go further. A couple of young men were walking down the street and offered to come over and help!!
First Blush Digital © Diane Clancy
I am still so appreciative of all this help that I tear up over this! They managed to get the car out!! When they put it back in, they drove it so that one side is on the bare driveway where the car was (yes, WAS!) and the other side is on top of the 3 – 4″ of ice that coats most of the driveway. So that way it is not still in that deep well.
I am delighted about this .. today we are in the process of getting 6 – 10″ more of snow .. so now we have a chance of getting on top of this snow .. and my snow plow guy says his back feels ok now and he plans to get us out this time. So it is still much worse than it would have been if we had gotten plowed .. but spring WILL come … someday …
Sorry to have been so diverted from art for a bit .. but it has been pretty hectic with all this added to the usual. I am working to catch up today .. thank you for all your kind, kind comments and hugs you have been sending my way!!
~ Diane Clancy
Diane, what a blessing! First Blush is so beautiful and appropriate. Hang in there. No fear — Spring is Coming.
I feel your pain! We have a ton of snow here after freezing rain last weekend! We are almost to March!
Great mood with First Blush – I agree – Spring is coming!!!
We have four inches wet snow today on long island…good luck.
Such lovely, uplifting colors in this piece. How wonderful that you got your car out.
Just wanted to tell you that you have another award to pick up. You can find it here:
http://genxsters.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/more-love-my-first-award/
Bless you!
Free, free at last! Yea!
That’s good news about the car and thank goodness that nice young men still populate this world. It isn’t all gloom and doom wherever you look, is it?
We have no such weather problems here, as a matter of fact, our weather is springlike and we expect warm temperatures by Sunday (16 degrees Celsius).
Such a wonderful sky in your painting today. I would love to lie down and look at those clouds drift by for awhile.
Where’s the global warming when you need it?! Holy Mackerel, you’d think you live in Antartica. At least the car is out of the clutches of the ice wrapped around the tires. No fear, Spring is on it’s way!
If I lived there I hack that ice to smithereens and get you out, I have good experience with ice and snow having lived many years in New York and Colorado.
Lovely beautiful image, “First Blush”
Thank you for your kind words and visits, as always.
Diane, there is an award for you over at my place, come and get it.
I am so happy to hear you have finally got your car dug out. It’s very hard to be up here without a car so I know how frustrating it was for you. What you say about the kindness of the people here in western Mass is so true. I got stuck driving in the same storm that caused your car to get frozen into your driveway. Where I live we are expected to move our cars to the road so the guy can come and plow. Unfortunately, although the snow had stopped, the ice storm had dropped a layer of ice on top of the snow and then the rain that was pouring down made all that a very slippery mess. For some misguided reason I decided I wanted to drive around the block to park behind my apartment complex. When I realized the street hadn’t been plowed I tried to make a U-turn and got stuck on a huge patch of ice. There I was in the middle of the street – crosswise – and no way to get out, and it was raining and freezing and I was soaking wet from cleaning my car in the rain. And there was this kind young man in an SUV and he got out of his car, came up and physically pushed my car off of the ice. I don’t even know who he was because he just got back in his car and made sure I was ok and then left. What a guy!
I moved to western Mass. from New York City (Brooklyn, actually) about 5 years ago and I used to actually cry my first few months here when people were kind to me. And their kindness is still so surprising to me, and very much appreciated. I might add that Diane and Susan have both been particularly kind to me so the consideration of her neighbors is not surprising. They surely deserve all the good things that come to them.