Is it spring??

First off need to take care of some business, a HUGE congrats to Cara for winning this year's bracket challenge.  This was probably the most competitive bracket challenge I have ever had, until Cara dominated the final four.  A HUGE, HUGE thank you to everyone who played you guys are seriously the best, and I will be pestering you again next March :) Also, even tho the Boilers weren't a part of this one it was one of the best March Madnesses I can ever remember.

So, I have been contemplating writing this blog post, but what has been stopping is my fear that I am jinxing us in the great state of Indiana.  I actually almost blogged this last week, and the dreaded four letter word(snow) came up so I didn't.  Well, I am taking a chance because I think I am safe, I think spring has finally arrived.  While it may get cold again, I don't think we will see another snow til next winter.  Those of you that follow me on twitter probably saw me bitching over and over because you know limited characters about our winter, but I think I had good reason.  This was easily the worst winter I can ever remember, and I should preface that with the fact that I was a baby when the Blizzard of 78 hit our great state so I don't remember that one.  It all started right after New Year's and we basically spent 3 straight months with snow on the ground.  The first storm was a doozy I can't remember the exact total of snow fall we got but I know it was in the 12-17 inches range.  I started out thinking stay ahead of it and shovel, but after 1 time I gave up because it was a heavy snow, and then I just sat inside and watched our across the street neighbor shovel probably 20x.  Here is the result of not shoveling, having to shovel a small path to our driveway to get to the cars.

So after 2 straight days of steady snowfall, what does it do?  Why the temps plunge and we get sucked into that polar vortex(A term I have never heard before) and our temperatures reached dangerous levels of negative 50 with wind chill.  You know it's serious too when our county got put under a travel warning meaning only emergency workers on the roads they never do that due to our factory's.  At that point my worry was my car wouldn't start, because winter storm or not I had to go back to work.  Thankfully, my car did start and after closing for 2 days we reopened and roads had gotten somewhat better but I took this shot of the parking lot and "road" a term I use loosely outside of our building. 

Do you see the road?  I will fully admit to breaking the law you have to cross railroad tracks and there is a stop sign, but I saw the ice while approaching so I didn't stop, sue me :) 

If memory serves me and Bekah and correct me if I am wrong we got one nice day that melted all this crap and it seemed like right after it melted we got hit with another storm.  The worst part for me I am short, and I would get to an intersection and have trouble seeing over the drifts that were so high. 

Like all good(sarcasm) things winter did eventually come to an end and we have had beautiful weather here a few days in a row.  One thing I will say I am thankful we didn't lose power, and I am thankful I coach tennis because all I did while stuck inside was EAT EAT EAT and I became a blimp!!  If we ever have to go thru a winter like that again I am serious I am out of here.

Winter of 2014 SUCK IT
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