Long day. Started with a plow going by on the highway at about 5 p.m., ended with a plow going by on the highway when we got home at 5 p.m. Those guys and gals really served us all today!
We had a quiet Christmas morning, with Christmas music and opening the gifts around the tree. Then we headed out into the snow, going up and down the streets of Mancos, taking pictures of the snow on the trees and everything.
The trip to Durango was uneventful and we got to the Doubletree for our Christmas dinner at about 12:30. After a good and filling meal, we took our Jeep-full load of food and banana boxes out to Durango Friends Meeting, finishing up the collection of materials for food boxes the Meeting will assemble in early January.
Back into Durango for more trips up and down streets, enjoying the fallen and falling snow on everything. The bronze horses are resting in the snow at the train station; the other view is up Main from the train station. Finally, we started for home.
My bright idea was to go up the Lightner Creek Road a ways, looking at snow in the canyon. On the way back, about 3:30, I edged out too far and found out that the snow had been plowed further out than the road extended. In other words, the right front wheel was suddenly in deep snow ... hip-deep, I found when I got out and tried shoveling. Thank goodness for a couple from the Oklahoma City area, Toby and Leah, who came up the road in a vehicle capable of pulling us back out of the snow, and did so. Toby is the model of the kind of Good Samaritan we should all be in snow times ... stopped to ask if anything was wrong, helped size up the situation, pulled the Jeep out, smiled and talked confidently all the time and would accept nothing in return for his important help. A Christmas Good Samaritan! tv
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