Life in the Bristolwood

No, we weren’t on our way to Grandmother’s house! You see, tomorrow is Mark’s birthday, so Michelle and I made a trip up to Rochester to pick up a few “goodies”!  That is all I am saying for now….but hopefully, photos will follow tomorrow!

As I was mulching the leaves on Friday, I was so surprised to see a beautiful rose abloom on my miniature rose bush! We had such cold temperatures a couple of weeks ago; who would have known the little rose bush would still flower after being in the deep freeze!

After basking in summer-like temperatures the past week, the colder “more seasonal” temperatures have returned.  There was even talk of snow once again.  We will see! I do remember several years ago a cold and snowy wintry day on Mark’s birthday.  Mark and I didn’t have a truck then, so Mark borrowed his father’s.  My brother, Randy, was riding with Mark in the truck and I was following in my Volkswagen Fox.  It was snowing a wet, heavy snow and Mark had wood for the house tucked in the back of the truck.

We were only about six miles from the house when the car I was driving decided to suddenly perform the most hair-raising ballet with me sitting helplessly behind the wheel!  There was a great deal of snow on the road, and the car just began winding its way over to the right side of the road.  As a barn was ahead of me, I took the steering wheel into my hands and turned it to the left.  At this point, the car veered over to the left, but instead of stopping, it spun around and I wound up stopped in the opposite lane, facing the opposite direction, and narrowly missing a bank of mailboxes in the process! I sat, shaken for a few seconds, when the urgency to move so as not to become a stationary target overcame me.

I turned the little Fox around into the other lane and slowly progressed towards the house. Upon arriving, Mark and Randy were already loading the wood from the truck.  They were rather anxious to get it inside where it would be safe from the elements.  The most intriguing part of the whole incident was that neither Mark nor Randy had any idea I had been left behind in my perilous maneuvers!

The kids are so anxious for tomorrow….they got Mark some really cool presents.  Should be a lot of fun! Snow, or no snow!