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February 5, 2007
No school
Yesterday's entry was rather short, so I'll repost it here in it's entirety:
It's was about 10 degrees F when I took the following photo of the boys and myself. I thought it would be a nice change from me dressed as a Ninja and I thought that mom and dad would like to see a current shot of the boys (they've been out of state and haven't seen the boys for about a month, I think.)
It wasn't until I opened the photo on my computer that I noticed my resemblance to Earl from the TV show. For those of you that aren't familiar with the show, Earl is never able to keep his eyes open when he gets his picture taken.
Ignore the part where I mention I'm Earl-like. You want to focus on the part where I say it's 10 degrees F (-12C). And before we go any further, let me point out it is currently -2 F (-18.8 C).
Last night the boys and I were watching the news looking to see if school was closed today. I never dreamed it would be, but we'd been flipping around on the TV and had stumbled across some closings, which got the boys interested.
One of the stations runs the early news and they were interviewing a woman who said that if school was open tomorrow she would drive her child to school to keep her out of the cold. The woman went on to say that if it is too cold the schools should be closed for the safety of the children so they don't have to go out into the elements.
Jack (at 11) gave this a hearty "Yea!" and then went on to explain that sometimes it was too cold for school to be open.
In the photo below, at 10 F, Jack is the middle-height child in front of me. He's wearing a short-sleeve T-shirt and has his coat open. In a rare move his hood is up. During the course of running our errands I turned to him once, as we exited somewhere, and asked where his coat was. He hadn't worn it in.
Of course, none of us have our coats closed. and nobody is wearing anything particularly heavy.
For my mother:
After this photo we climbed into an already-running and heated minvan. And the boys and I have discussed how even limited exposure to extreme cold can cause a person problems. Rest assured that by last night, when we left Kroger and the had dropped while the wind picked up, everybody was happy enough to be bundled up.
Posted by delmer at February 5, 2007 8:55 AM
Comments
HI All!! Miss each one of you!! I am glad to see you have your coats, no one is standing there in their boxers. Remember the word "frost bite". Love
Posted by: Mom/Granny at February 5, 2007 5:54 PM