Snow Day?

Yes, it is March 13, but this is the view out of my window towards the school today.  The snow is cleared from the driveway, the installer from Knox Heating and Air has arrived to replace our furnace which died a week ago (yes, we've gone a week without a furnace), and I'm now able to add a post about our snow day....wait, technically we did receive snow, and no we do not have school....and oh the evil irony!  THIS IN FACT IS NOT A SNOW DAY!

At Rockridge, today was already a "break day".  In fact, I'm not even sure what we are calling this day.  It's a result of the new parent-teacher conference week we had back in October.  For two evenings, teachers had parent-teacher conferences until 8 p.m. to hopefully accommodate parents schedules better.  In exchange for the two 12-hour work days, a "break day" (my terminology) was scheduled for March 13.

So the run continues!  Here in our little corner of Rock Island County, Illinois, we haven't had a snow day now in two years, and that's a little strange.  This winter weather this season, though, as really been strange.  We had a good snow in November, barely anything in December, virtually nothing in January, 70-degree weather in February, and now 4 inches of snow in mid-March.

For me, today will be grading assignments.  I need to catch up on some grading from last week that I was unable to get to until today.  For that reason, I'm going to cut this short and get started...happy almost snow day students!  Look at the bright side...we won't have to make this day up in May.

Enjoy your day!

JBiz