Tonight
Cloudy. Patchy Drizzle…Light Freezing Drizzle In The Evening…Then Slight Chance Of Snow…Light Sleet…Patchy Light Freezing Drizzle And Slight Chance Of Light Freezing Rain After Midnight. Lows Around 28. Northeast Winds 10 To 15 Mph. Chance Of Measurable Precipitation 20 Percent.

I’m glad its Friday. With this in the forecast, I have no desire to get out for any reason. We had one bad day this week, but got lucky. It was sleeting when I went to work, but was able to get into the building without much trouble. But you could just see the world outside turning into a skating rink of ice. It was then I realized that I didn’t have an ice scraper in the Explorer. At home, its parked under the carport, so I never have to scrape ice on icy winter mornings. But, my boss was there, as well as one of the guys that attends our church, but helped in the building of our new church building, and he spends alot of time there doing odds and ends. He is working nights these 2 weeks, so seeing him every morning when he works nights, is pretty much routine. I asked him if he would go out and start my Explorer — that was about 30 minutes before I was due to leave. Plus, sometime during the morning, the temps had raised just a bit, and the ice on the sidewalks had turned to slush and water. The defroster on my Explorer did a good job melting the ice off my windshield, so I was good to go. My afternoon job allows me the benefit of parking under a carport, so scraping my windshield there wasn’t an issue either.

Al did suggest something, and it is definately on my “I want this for Christmas” list. I thought we had to buy a newer vehicle to get this, but he said no, well…. yes, you can buy some of the newer vehicles with this feature. But if your present vehicle doesn’t have it, there is a plug type thing you can wire into some of the older vehicles, and I would be able to start my Explorer from inside. I don’t know how expensive they are, and how difficult they are to install. But I want David to at least check into it, and see what all it involves. I hate winter and the icy conditions that are often a part of it. Anything to make getting to and from work a bit easier is definately something I want!

But, in the meantime, at least for tomorrow, I think I’m staying put!