Today did not go as planned. First, my printer in my classroom has not been working lately. The tech department gave me a couple of different ways to try and get it going, but none of them worked. This is not a deal-breaking problem as there are still plenty of other printers that I can use and I don't have much that I need to print anyway. However, while dealing with that issue, I also discovered that our school's online classroom, Canvas, was also not working (part of the Amazon outage--I learned today that Amazon controls access to about a third of our Internet). This was a bigger issue as most of the assignments for my class are both found and submitted on Canvas. Thankfully, I had a contingency ready for such a situation (Canvas can be a bit unreliable from time to time) and enacted that plan by emailing my students a link to a Google presentation that contains the same information (and yes, I also have a contingency ready if there is no Internet access at all--it's just more of a pain to deal with).
I arrived at home to find that over a foot of snow had accumulated (which was nice) and that it was heavy and partially hardened due to temperatures playing around the freezing mark (which was not as nice). Scarlet (my ATV with a plow attachment) was doing great work clearing my driveway until my final pass up the long stretch of my drive. Just as I got to the snowbank at the end of the run, I heard a grinding sound. I immediately put Scarlet in neutral and turned off the engine.
The sudden silence was filled by was sounded like a small fountain splashing the ground under Scarlet. Oil seemed to be pouring out of everywhere. I pushed Scarlet to her parking spot and put an oil pan under her (even though all of the oil seemed to already be on my driveway). I then called out the boys and had them finish shoveling the drive with me. As I went down the length of the driveway, I saw that the oil had started spilling (for no reason that I could discern) at the start of that last run. It took the four of us as long to clear that last bit as it had taken Scarlet to clear the rest of the driveway. I can tell that I'm going to be sore tomorrow.
I made a comment yesterday that I was so content with my life at the moment that I am concerned that I might be slipping into complacency. Yep. Tempting fate was a poor choice on my part.
I arrived at home to find that over a foot of snow had accumulated (which was nice) and that it was heavy and partially hardened due to temperatures playing around the freezing mark (which was not as nice). Scarlet (my ATV with a plow attachment) was doing great work clearing my driveway until my final pass up the long stretch of my drive. Just as I got to the snowbank at the end of the run, I heard a grinding sound. I immediately put Scarlet in neutral and turned off the engine.
The sudden silence was filled by was sounded like a small fountain splashing the ground under Scarlet. Oil seemed to be pouring out of everywhere. I pushed Scarlet to her parking spot and put an oil pan under her (even though all of the oil seemed to already be on my driveway). I then called out the boys and had them finish shoveling the drive with me. As I went down the length of the driveway, I saw that the oil had started spilling (for no reason that I could discern) at the start of that last run. It took the four of us as long to clear that last bit as it had taken Scarlet to clear the rest of the driveway. I can tell that I'm going to be sore tomorrow.
I made a comment yesterday that I was so content with my life at the moment that I am concerned that I might be slipping into complacency. Yep. Tempting fate was a poor choice on my part.
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