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   Lexus in snow
Friday, December 19 2008
There was a big snow predicted, so I went out the the down Red Oak to make sure the end of my extension cord was tied to a branch well above the ground so I'd be able to find it in deep snow. I also went down to the greenhouse site to make sure there were no tools in a position to vanish until April.
The snow started in the early afternoon while Gretchen was at a physical therapist to further investigate her back problem. An hour passed and I grew worried, so I called her cellphone only to hear it ringing several feet away. So I started paying more attention to the road out in front. Various vehicles would slowly appear from the east, spinning their wheels as they tried to climb the steep grade. The snow plow went through, laying down sand and salt and pushing snow out of the way. About ten minutes later I saw a car struggling with unusual difficulty, so I went out and found it was driven by the neighbor from across the street (the people who hire a team of Mexicans to tend their immaculate lawn on a weekly basis). He was driving his Lexus, which, it turned out, has rear wheel drive. I've never seen a car perform so poorly on a half inch accumulation of snow. I gave a push, as did two or three high school kids who appeared in a battered old SUV, and my neighbor barely made it home.
About an hour later Gretchen arrived; she'd climbed that same hill in her front-wheel-drive Honda Civic without incident.
Meanwhile I'd been building a wooden unit to support two 30.5 by 23.5 inch framed panes of insulated glass that I'd bought this summer at a yard sale. By this evening I had the two framed panes hung in my unit like a pair of double doors, though they'd previously been the two frames in a vertical bypass-sliding unit.


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