We got up early on Tuesday morning to get on the road for the final leg of our trip home. The weather forecast was foreboding. It had been 100 degrees in Colorado only a day before, and we saw the temperature would drop and the front range would be hit by snow and freezing rain. We wanted to try to get ahead of it as much as we could.
When I went outside to start loading up the car, it was even pretty cold, windy and nasty in Lincoln, Nebraska. We got on the road and it was rough going out of the gates. Windy, rainy and just plain yucky.
But, the new Subaru handled it well and we pushed on through as quickly as we could. As ughly as it was outside, we were happy to hit the Colorado border.
Fortunately, we got home before the snow hit in earnest. As soon as I got the car unloaded, the first thing I did was get out and cover our garden. I must save our precious tomatoes!
By mid afternoon, the snow was coming down. It was nothing substantial, but still pretty weird to be seeing a covering of snow the day after Labor Day.
We always talk about a “white Christmas,” but now in my five years in Colorado, I can say that we have had 2 or 3 Christmases that were snow-free, but we have seen a snowy Mother’s Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and now the day after Labor Day.
Anyway, even with this weird little taste of winter, it was good to be home. Erin and I were exhausted, but of course the kids were bouncing off the walls after hours in the car. We let them do a little bouncing, but when bedtime came, we all knocked out pretty hard. I think we’ll be in the home orbit for a while now.
