Clark Kent vs. Superman

So a little over a month ago, Kace and Cris had a cheesy routine vision test at school, Kace failed the first time so the stupid volunteer had him take it again with the same letters and lo n behold he passed... imagine that?

Anyway Kace had recently been complaining about how things further away were more blurry in his right eye and if he closed his right he could see things in better focus. So I took my hunch and made an eye appt for him. It was a joke, or at least I thought it was.. I was in the room and silently reading the same eye chart with him (with my glasses on of course)and he blew it big time, I had to look a few times to make sure we were looking at the same chart. He got only one letter correct. So after a series of tests Kace became the newest member in the Wise family to inherit the 4 eyes trait. He seems pretty cool with it and that is good for me, we went out and bought him a cool case and he got 2 pair (one is a back up and it also came with a sunglasses attachment) and for a kid...that's pretty cool.

Agustin thinks it is the end of the world and Kace is now damaged goods thanks to my family genes, but I think it just adds more character to him (of course a mom would say that right?) Kace is near-sighted and his right eye is 20/75 and his left is 20/50... look out world... There is a new Clark Kent in town!

Amen. Can I have some Luck with that?

So there are a gazillion tree's that look like this around my house, all covered with ice and snow, and too old to probably handle it, so the other day my neighbor in front of my place was nice enough to knock on my door and advise me that she heard the tree cracking all night long and about 8 years ago it fell on a few cars, so if I felt the need to move my car, that I could park it in front of her place. I went out there to discover a huge branch laying next to my car and decided to take her up on her offer. That is however, how I got my car stuck and my chain snapped, but heck, at least a tree didnt fall on it... yet. So I lasted only one day of going nowhere and the panic of finishing up my Christmas shopping really got to me, and I 'rigged' my chain that broke the day before and put it back on my car. The red Duck Tape in the picture is my handy work. (I dont want to brag, but it worked and I am actually super proud of myself) If it hadnt of course I would be one of those idiots stranded out there that everyone else is honking at and flipping a certain finger.
As I am putting on my newly taped chain on my tire though I am still parked in front of my neighbors house, my car is running so the windows can defrost some of the ice before I take my window scraper to it, and I hear this loud crack! I look up to see her gutter swinging right for me! I jump to the right and turn around to discover that a branch from a tree across the street from hers had snapped and pulled down some power lines that swung across the street and attached to her house. The power line managed to stay attached and she didnt lose her power, but it hung low with one of the smaller branches still dangling from it. I look at her house, and I look at the power line dangling, then I look at the big branch sitting in front of my car where I once stood. I just kinda stopped to take it in, and didnt realize that a lady up the hill (in ski's) and a guy shoveling his car out across the way also stood shocked and dumbfounded like me. And just as quickly as it happened the guy went back to work on his shoveling and the lady continued to ski down her hill, just then the neighbor came out of her house and started making small talk with me, I asked her if she didnt hear all that from inside her house...she hadnt and once she looked up, she was not happy to find her gutter swinging in the air with her electricty potentially ready to pull its own plug. I really wanted my car out of there and even managed to joke with her about how, I think my own parking spot might actually be safer, and I am taking the risk and parking back there tonight. I guess if a tree is going to fall on me or my car it might as well just do it already, just let me make sure I have 'tree' coverage on my insurance first. (which I do...I checked...whew)

This picture shows the hanging powerline in the middle and off the the right, you can see her gutter hanging off her house, the tire marks is where my car was.
After all was said and done, I finished my shopping, my car has no snow on it, and can handle the next 3 inches coming tomorrow morning and my chains are still safely on my car, snug as a bug in a rug!

Is White A Color?

This is the view off my deck. It took some convincing but Cris went out there with the ruler... the ruler sinks all the way into it, so I am guessing it is over a foot deep.
I got out of the house yesterday and even managed to put my own chains on, but when I attempted to do the same this morning, the weather, my chains and my car all decided that they were done playing in the snow. My right tire chain snapped and the tire really enjoyed spinning in a crazy, dirty snow frenzy...ah well it was fun while it lasted. I guess we will really have to make the best out of board games and hot apple cider.