Salute the Sun

Good morning. I am a little late in commenting about last week's activity and results but better late than never.   On Tuesday in yoga I learned the sun salutation. Definitely a wonderful way to start the morning. I did start a few mornings in this past week with it. Gets the energy going and its just simply a feel good exercise.  Kris gave me the most awesome compliment. She told me I do really well at keeping a straight back when bending for some of the poses. I think the key is to bend at the waist, not to try to bend at the shoulders and roll down to the position...  Kris said its like leading down with your chest rather than your head. Both are really good tips I think for keeping a straight back. So bending at the waist, leading with the chest. :)

On Friday I missed yoga class. Our weather was turning. I went into town to pick up some things before class and I stopped in at Alt Med for some more burdock root blend and to step on the scale. Yahoo!! I lost 4 lbs in ten days!! I will take that loss. :)  When I was done at Alt Med I thought it might be a good idea to call Kevin about the weather at home. He said we had already gotten more snow than we have all winter. He was at the bus stop waiting for the bus and it was an hour late.  They had let the kids out early so Jesse should have been home at 2:45. Here it was at 4 and he still wasn't home. Add that to a feeling I had and I thought I better head home early. I called and left a message for Kris and let my friend Julie know also that I wouldn't be at yoga while Kevin started out to drive the bus route to look for the bus.

As I drove home the snow wasn't bad, until I turned onto South Rockerville Rd.  Almost immediately the snow was much deeper and slushy. I switched to 4 wheel drive. I did pretty well navigating on the road. I took my time. I am used to ice and snow, coming from Saskatchewan and Alberta, but what I am not used to is ice and snow on windy mountain curves. I have lived here now for almost 7 years, but we haven't really gotten a lot of ice and snow in that time. And when it is icy, I just simply stay home or have Kevin drive me.
Anyway, I did very well until I got past the Black Hills Children's Home. I got up the next hill fine, but the hill after that one... at the top it  curves and I went into a skid. I was only doing about 25 mph, but I probably put a little gas on to keep going up the hill. Anyway, I started to skid. Straight for the drop off ahead of me. I knew I had to steer the direction I wanted to go and I wanted to go around the curve. So I steered that direction, but I must have oversteered because I headed straight for the outcrop of rock on the other side of the road. I didn't want to steer the other way again, because I didn't want to end up oversteering and going into the drop off. I was picking up speed because now I was heading downhill again so I went with the skid and ended up kissing the outcrop of rock. My wheel caught on a rock and I started to tip over. That was a scary moment, but then the truck righted itself and I landed on my four wheels again. A very kind man who had been following in his car stopped and helped me get back onto the highway and pick up the air dam that fell off. He gave it a once over and we determined I could drive it home. I got home and the truck is pretty banged up. I lost the air dam, the grill and loosened a headlight and banged the bumper up pretty darn good. Kevin figures pretty much a whole new front end.  I am fine. I was calm and cool and collected almost the entire time. But I am glad I didn't wait. An hour later it would have been that much worse on S. Rockerville Rd. But also the highway by that time was closed north of Keystone due to a semi truck jack-knifing and blocking the road. Sometimes it helps to trust the instincts. I did miss going to class, but I am sure Kris and Julie had a good time getting to know each other.  At least the truck is still drivable until I get it into the body shop.  I will be making calls to the insurance today.

On a happy note, it was a really good snowfall we had. Some much needed moisture in the snow, big white wet flakes and we ended up with about 6 inches. It didn't snow for the three days that was forecast, just the one, and we are still way behind normal for precipitation this year but it helped.   Now we are warming up and expect temperatures into the 50's by the weekend. Yay!!   Maybe we can finally get some spring. Can't wait to see the trees start to bud! I love spring. Its my favourite time of year.

Namaste.