"To employees and students,
Due to the hazardous weather outlook for later on today, the college will be closed Wednesday December 9.
Travel safely, if you travel,
XXX"
Yea. Snow days are the best. And reasonable. A fairly substantial blizzard is bearing down on New England having dropped several inches to a foot of snow on the mid-west. There are some high winds associated with this thing. Not enough to cause a crisis in Maine, but enough to make you change your plans if you're a sensible person. No job of work you have to get to is worth dying on the side of the road in a snowbank, or getting hit by a plow truck.
It's almost the end of term here, less than a week of regular classes to go, and so the light at the end of the tunnel is visible. But still, we're bone weary and need rest and could also use an extra day or bit of one to catch up on farm projects and housework. The snow is not expected till the afternoon.
The barn is roofed, just in time, and we have a snow day, so time to do a few things around here before the snow actually hits.
An example; Our neighbors called yesterday to ask us to take down some stock fence that impedes snow removal. The only reason the fence is still up is because I've been exerting my remaining energy on the weekends getting the roof on the barn we're building at the college.
Another: The tractor is out of diesel. Can't move snow easily without that.
And then, I think I will wait out the blizzard lying on the couch and reading not a serious book, but a novel.
XXX"
Yea. Snow days are the best. And reasonable. A fairly substantial blizzard is bearing down on New England having dropped several inches to a foot of snow on the mid-west. There are some high winds associated with this thing. Not enough to cause a crisis in Maine, but enough to make you change your plans if you're a sensible person. No job of work you have to get to is worth dying on the side of the road in a snowbank, or getting hit by a plow truck.
It's almost the end of term here, less than a week of regular classes to go, and so the light at the end of the tunnel is visible. But still, we're bone weary and need rest and could also use an extra day or bit of one to catch up on farm projects and housework. The snow is not expected till the afternoon.
The barn is roofed, just in time, and we have a snow day, so time to do a few things around here before the snow actually hits.
An example; Our neighbors called yesterday to ask us to take down some stock fence that impedes snow removal. The only reason the fence is still up is because I've been exerting my remaining energy on the weekends getting the roof on the barn we're building at the college.
Another: The tractor is out of diesel. Can't move snow easily without that.
And then, I think I will wait out the blizzard lying on the couch and reading not a serious book, but a novel.
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