It's Still Winter

It’s still winter in Butte. We keep getting little glimpses of spring but the couple of inches of snow we got yesterday reminds me that it is in fact still winter in Butte.

Last week I had five glorious days off in a row. It was spring break and Jeff and I had lots of plans to get moving on the kitchen remodel and to potty train the small one. Unfortunately I was getting over a cold and Jeff came down with a wicked sore throat. Basically we just hung out for the first few days and did a lot of resting. On the bright side, I was able to get caught up on my cleaning and laundry.

Potty training is starting off slow. We had multiple accidents, I had about given up and then on Sunday the little monkey asked to go potty twice and actually went! Then last night she pooped on the floor. I’m thinking this potty training stuff is going to take awhile.

We spent three whole days trying to get our car out of the ice. No kidding. Our house is on a corner that has drainage issues. Every year in late winter we get a lake of ice in front of our house. Last year the blazer got stuck and we told ourselves that we’d stay on top of it this year. We didn’t move the car for one day and it was long enough for it to get frozen in the lake of ice. After the first freeze we knew we were in trouble because the way late winter works in Butte is everything thaws during the day and freezes at night causing more water to accumulate in our lake. By last week our car was about a foot deep in ice. Since the weather was getting into the 50s during the day we figured we could chip away enough ice to then pull the car out with the truck. No such luck. After two days of chipping, and I mean for like two hours each day, we discovered that the bottom of the car was frozen to the ice lake underneath it. Then yesterday it snowed again. I’m hoping to have the stupid thing out soon but according to the weather reports that’s not very likely.



We got the tires out at one point the ice was 1/2 way up the tires. It is still touching and attached to the underside of the car. Nice huh.

If you look under the front you can see the holes we've made. We used water from our hose to eat away at the ice but it's still stuck.