The snow pile, "Guilty as charged" and the Eclipse

The Snow Pile...
This is the snow pile created by Jonas after the second storm of last weekend. See how tall it is?! J was pretty proud. He shovelled a lot of snow that day. It was the wet, heavy kind of snow, so it was pretty tiring. Not only that, J also went to his 2 construction job sites and shovelled there as well.

Needless to say, he slept like a log that night.


Guilty as charged!
Here is the washing machine story as promised. A couple of weeks ago our machine decided not to throw out the "dirty bath water" as they say. I promptly accused Jonas. I had a gut feeling that it had something to do with his construction clothes being washed. We waited for the repairman for a week.

Meanwhile, J was nice enough to take our clothes to the laundromat. The repairman finally came and pulled out this - the nail! Happy to have my machine back, I threw in a load of laundry the next day and guess what, the centrifuge system stalled again and we were left with sopping wet clothes. So, back came the repairman and pulled out 2 more nails. It's not over yet. Apparently, J lost about 6 or 7 nails and the washer has to go through a few cycles to spit them all out. Empty your pockets, Jonas!


The Eclipse...
Here is a rather not-so-good picture of the eclipse over the Peace Bridge in Minneapolis. I was losing light so rapidly that, by the time I drove the couple of miles to the bridge, it was pretty dark and my little camera could only manage this. A better camera would have done the beautiful evening more justice. It was quite a site to see the moon grow from a tiny sliver to a big reddish luminescent ball in just a matter of minutes.