Prom cancelled due to WEATHER
Bonita getting just a bit snappish
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Our Mrs. Gilbertson, peeved at this "no show" spring, writes:
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Last night, April 26, the Jefferson Senior High Prom had been scheduled. Because of the blizzard, it was cancelled at around 10:00 a.m. Saturday morning. I can't recall a prom being cancelled in the past and especially for a snow storm. Just think of all of the broken-hearted students AND BUSINESSES who were affected by this.
Hair and nail salons, florists, resaurants, and limo rentals. Now when they reschedule the prom for either next Friday or SUNDAY!?! night the students have to try and get new appts. for their hair (which, if the prom is on Sunday, where do they go?), remake dining reservations, hope the corsages don't die AND try to get the night off, if they work. It's a nightmare. I feel so sorry for the businesses who lost a ton of money and the students who planned this big night for months and/or weeks.
Dave and I returned to Alexandria April 2, a day later than we planned, as we ended up having to stay in a little town in Wisconsin on the April 1 because of a major snowstorm. We have been very blessed to be in Alexandria for the three major snowstorms of the year. When we left for Florida in January, we never thought that we would be shoveling snow when we returned. I know I sound whiney but come on!!
We were on our first pontoon ride on May 13th in 2007 and had our flowers, tomatoes and everything else planted by May 18th. I am getting a touch snappish about the whole "no show" spring. Can anyone do anything about it? If so PLEASE, PLEASE do it!!
Bonita
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(Trailboss says: Better now, Bonita? Hope you like the file photos I found. Couldn't find one with you looking real peeved though. Wonder if Dave could provide one? Write again soon. Thanks for the participation. Sorry about the subject. TB)
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Perhaps just as owly as Bonita is the Cub Reporter, adrift in his log cabin beside the cold waters of Lake Darling. Only a day or two ago the cub was gaily reporting the opening of the Alexandria Golf Course and speculating, for anyone who may care to know, as to just what his average score might be this year and how, as he ages, he is getting to be a better ball striker because. . .
Normally a good Minnesota snowstorm would get the cub out of the house for a donut and maybe a picture, but in his unusually depressed condition he now claims to be unable to get the strength to push his door open. Yesterday he filed this dismal report, and then simply shot a few sad photos through the window.
(No report or word yet on the prom from the cub.)
Now here's Tom Obert, our Cub Reporter:
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"The blizzard of 2008 continues into today. A measurement off our bedroom deck shows a uniform depth of 17 inches of snow below. A no travel advisory is in effect. The snow is predicted to continue all day, mixing with rain later this afternoon (boy, that will be fun!) That is not the sun in the photo above - it's the camera flash. I couldn't get the door open, so had to shoot through the glass. But it does show a nice overhang of snow coming over the eave - and, surprisingly, a significant amount of open water on lake."
Trailboss says: I see the icy overhang, Tom, the window valance and the flash off the pane, but not so much the significant amount of open water on the lake. Maybe if you could get closer.
