What a Week & No Rug Hooking!

Not a great week to be living in Ohio! We got slammed with a blizzard of snow over the weekend. It will take me all week just to dig my garage out so I can get my car out, after I shovel my loonngg driveway so I can back my car out after I dig it out – is there anyone living in the South who would like to adopt me until summer? LOL!

Earlier in the week we had 6 hours of sleet, so under all that snow, there is a layer of ice to boot. My 21 yo son was in Florida for Spring break and decided to head for home on Tuesday since he was “out of money, Mom” — I told him we were having an ice storm. Being 21 and thinking “nothing bad can happen,” he set out for home with his 2 friends. They got about 20 miles from home in Ohio and hit a patch of ice/snow on the turnpike. I shudder when I tell you, he flipped the car over 3 times, crossed the opposite two lanes of traffic and landed in a ditch on the opposite side of the turnpike. The good news is – All the boys are okay with minor injuries and are at home, and no on else was involved in the accident! Unbelievable!  The bad news is – My son was driving (not his car) and the car was totaled. Even though this was a terrible accident, had they waited to come home this weekend as originally planned, they would have hit snow and terrible weather the entire way home. So, I am really counting my blessings . . .

Not bad enough? My computer crashed and burned on Monday last week and I was without it and all my files, web site, and blog all week!! My drive had to be erased and reloaded with Windows, so I have spent that last 3 days reloading my software and recovering files (which fortunately, I had backed up on an external drive just a few days before the crash) — you always know when something is about to happen with your computer — it was hanging, freezing, and the like for a while before it bit the dust! So, another blessing – I am back with fingers crossed that things roll smoothly for a while.

Needless to say, no hooking got done this past week. If you ordered something from my web site, please be patient – I am just now retrieving those orders from my cart and getting ready to put your kits together.

So, since I am stuck in the house (nothing to do outside but shovel snow), I am trying to catch up with all of you . . .