Happy St. Patty's Day to all you Pat's out there!

Thought I'd use the jovial holiday to share excerpts from some of the latest emails from my 76 year old mom. This latest one came in yesterday. I wonder how many people would actually slow down...

I was kind of bored today so I parked my car on a busy street corner, put on my sun glasses, and pointed my hair drier out the window toward on-coming traffic to see if they would slow down.

This one from a few days ago was frightening to read at the time, but rereading it today left me snickering at the mental picture of her gently gunning the motor of the car up the driveway only to miss entrance to the garage by inches and slide back down again. One over-eager move might of shot the car clear through the garage and into her livingroom! Good thing she took archery classes in her youth and is such a good aim!

Well, we had the blizzard of 2005 yesterday and today. I have over a foot of snow in my yard. Yesterday, I left the house at 12:30 to get to class at 1 pm. By the time I left at 3 pm, there was about 2 inches of snow on my car and snowing heavily. The ride home took me over an hour. The snow and wind was so heavy you couldn't see the road lanes. My windshield wipers were barely able clear the snow off and I could only see a few yards of the road ahead. The main roads weren't so bad, but when I turned off Coors on to Ladera, the road was very slick and icy. A pickup truck nearly hit me sliding across the road. When I got to my house, I couldn't make it up my driveway. I had to gun the motor and get as close to the garage door as I could. After 4 tries, I finally made it into the garage. I looked at the garage this morning and the snow has melted all over the floor.

And the funniest one of all needs background music. I think the theme song of the Beverly Hillbillies would be appropriate. It was in response to me asking if my brother and family had arrived at her house yet while enroute to Florida.

Their first two days were the rides from hell... Their van blew a tire yesterday. The van and boat (16-footer being towed by the van) are over loaded and it is rough on the tires. The dogs (two very large dogs) are behaving well. They have a long drive ahead of them...Heidi (cockatoo parrot)is driving them nuts with her constant screeching. I hope Stu makes it through the move without having a breakdown. Maddy and Dolly (my mom's pocket dogs) are getting along fine with Cody and Meagan (Stuart's horses). They've never seen such big dogs before.

The good news is that Stuart and Linda have arrived safely and sanely in Brandon, Florida and so has the moving van with all their stuff. Dogs and bird are both still alive with generous loads of feathers and fur. Humans have a few less hairs and no nerves left and are dead tired.

Love you mom! Keep writing!