Saturday, January 20, 2007

My weekend and my Moanday....

Here is the Story
Kim and I did on Saturday.

Sunday I worked with Rob on an 82 year old man who fell in the ice on Moanday at his store in Independence.

Moanday, I did vo patrol and helped John with a problem solvers segment. I eng'd lives for John and Tess.

Tuesday I edited another Nancy Lewis piece
on the family that believes in faith healing.


Wednesday 17 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Tess and I had a story about the KCMO school district debating weather or not to get rid of middle schools. The school superintendant came to the meeting held at Paseo High school to give his views on it.



Thursday 18 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Winter is so harsh, yet beautiful. I mean, every task takes so much longer and is so hard to accomplish in winter, but yet, when you stop and take in the sights, oh the things you see. I tried to quickly get some pix of trees in our back yard coated with ice before it all melted.



Thursday 18 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Our new house sits on a hill, so we can see down through the trees to the neighbors below.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

On Friday 19 January, we went to Nebraska Furniture Mart and got a dining room set for our bedroom (kidding, we got it for our dining room). With help from our neighbors we got the heavy stuff in the proper room. It took some doing as it didn't exactly fit through the front door. With some dismantling and coaxing, and a nearly busted window, we finally got it. To celebrate the next day, Suyen fixed a special candlelight dinner of turkey drumsticks, rice and veggies.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Mmmmm.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Our dining room is nearly complete.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

The predicted snow started to fall in the afternoon. The ice was mostly melted, which was nice.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

This is our dining room.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Suyen finally figured out what this cloth is for.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Here is the view towards the kitchen and living room from the dining room.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

The trees started getting coated with light fluffy snow by mid afternoon.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

This is our deck in the snow. We are slowly getting rid of the surplus of garbage we have.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

This is the view from the deck during the snow.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

My Budda being satisfied, I layed down for a short winters nap while the snow fell outside.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Budda...Budda....Budda......



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

OK, so we foolishly went roaming around in the snow. Thank God for 4 wheel drive. We went to Sears outlet, which was closed, then to the Asian Market to get Suyen's fish. Then we made our way to YJ's for hot chocolate. I got some pix outside of the falling snow. It was still going strong at 8 o'clock at night. We then went to Worst Buy before going to QT to fuel up before heading homo.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

This is the same picture of 18th street without the flash.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

....and again without the shake.




Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

When we got home, I had some extra energy left, so I decided to counter attack the snow.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

This is the view up the steep part of our driveway during the snow.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Nanook of the north with his trusty snow shovel...



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

By the time I was done I had to start over again...



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

The snow flakes really show up when the flash is on.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

break time!



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

You can kind of get an idea of how deep the snow is getting.



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

I turn to show my best side....



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Yep, a couple of inches...



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Oh my aching back!



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

I survey what I have accomplished.....



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Almost done with the walkway, I only have the driveway to go...



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Ah the beauty of winter....



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

This is the view down the steep slope of the driveway...



Saturday 20 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

The walkway is done! Can't you tell?



Sunday 21 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

This is the aftermath the next day. It really quit snowing about noon. This was a nearly perfect snow. There was no ice underneath it. It happened on a weekend so no rush hour mess. The snow had the perfect wetness for snowballs, snow men and sledding.
And, to top it all off, it was really gorgeous to look at.



Sunday 21 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

The trees had their branches decorated by snow.



Sunday 21 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

We got about five and a half inches of snow.



Sunday 21 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Here we are driving to church via 169.



Sunday 21 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Downtown looms in the snow.



Sunday 21 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

We are coming up on the Broadway bridge.



Sunday 21 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Suyen tries to get a shot of the frozen Missouri river.



Sunday 21 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

This is downtown KCMO heading south on Broadway.



Sunday 21 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

This is downtown KCMO heading south on Broadway.



Sunday 21 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

OOOpsss, Suyen tries to get a shot of Immaculate Conception cathedral downtown.



Sunday 21 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Here is the golden domed Immaculate Conception cathedral.



Sunday 21 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

Here is the golden domed Immaculate Conception cathedral.



Sunday 21 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

We are heading south on Broadway by Bartle Hall.



Sunday 21 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

This is just a randum shot from the car.



Moanday 22 January 2007, originally uploaded by studestevo.

I went to the Sears warehouse store on frontage road to look at refrigerators. I snapped this picture as I was leaving out the windshield. This is the engine area of the Kansas City Southern yards. There is quite a variety of color there these days.

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