Unanticipated Snow Day

Today is March 2, 2009. The stock market is continuing to slip and slide, as is everyone in Athens and Watkinsville, Georgia. Yesterday we had our first big snowfall in well over a year. The day was beautiful but wrecked havoc with “everyday lives.” Addie was supposed to leave for Cincinnati today, but because of flight cancellations and the inability to get from here to there, she will wait to depart on Wednesday. Stell, however, did make it to his noon shuttle for the Atlanta Airport. He was going to leave at 1 p.m. but decided to pull a cautious “Margaret Holt” (very unlike him) and take a shuttle at noon. He has called and is boarding his plane for Charles DeGaulle Airport in Paris. Fortunately, he is not scheduled to go through New York, because all the big Northeastern Airports are closed. This morning he felt compelled to cruise at his usual leisurely pace, when I sweetly notified him that a tree had fallen across the driveway, and if he was to make the shuttle, some adjustment would have to be made in order to get the car out. He was lucky he could trim it back with clippers, since it is a rare occasion that he is able to start the chain saw (although some call him ChainSaw Stell). As for me, I cleaned the laundry room and if the melting continues, I will go out to see my friends perform in Dancing with the Stars. Nic has had a great Snow Day, and his statistics exam was postponed until the Wednesday after Spring Break. There is nothing that puts you in such a good mood as a completely unanticipated Snow Day.