Christmas Party for the Residents

Tonight we had our Christmas Party for our residents.  Some of the tenants decided that they wanted to sing Christmas Carols.  Somehow they managed to talk Laurie into it as well.  The pictures are not very good but you get the idea.   Laurie has a very good singing voice and everyone has commented on it.  It was fun to see her get out of her comfort zone and do something like this.  I am very proud of her for doing it. 


However she is probably still mad at me for yesterday.  We had a layer of black ice all over the place.  All of Southern Oregon was like one great big skating rink.  I spent all day trying to get rock salt and liquid deicer out on the sidewalks.  Laurie was not exactly pleased with me when I told her to stay in the house that I did not need for her to be out there and slip and get hurt.  Just having to be out there myself was bad enough. I ending up falling three seperate times and once you were on the ground it was a real challange to get back onto your feet.  At one point I fell in the middle of the parking lot and had to crawl on my hands and knees to the edge of the lot onto the bark beds before I was able to get stood back up.  What a mess!  Several of our tenants decided that they were going to try to drive on the ice but none of them got very far.  The one car got as far as the speed bump and could not even get over it.  The others decided after they had a confrontation with me that it was not a good idea to be attempting to drive.  The whole town was a mess.  Thankfully it all thawed off during the day and we did not get that cold last night.  I ended up putting down over 200 pounds of rock salt and around 150 gallons of liquid ice melt.  Made for a long yet interesting day