Last week, our temperatures rebounded, ice and snow melted, and my streets were clear...for about 36 hours. Then more weather arrived and returned the roads to death-trap status. This was not good news for the very large part of my brain that is devoted to worrying about driving in bad weather. Not good at all.
Thankfully, I have been blessed with good friends who volunteered to drive to rural ward conferences (Thanks Sue!) and even more rural (rural-er?) family home evenings (thanks Woodhouses!).
Even though I haven't done any slipping and sliding in my car this week (have I mentioned how much I love Sue and the Woodhouses?), I was still reminded of the slick Canadian roads and the not-so-helpful little "NO TRACTION" signal that would light-up on our dashboard whenever the roads got slick (Really, No Traction Light? The car currently has no traction? Thank goodness you alerted us to the lack of traction because we never would have figured it out just sliding though intersection after intersection!)
That little light became the inspiration for one of my favorite mission songs, co-written by the lovely and talented Sister Reese, who would sing harmony whenever we performed it. My recent road situation resulted in an additional post-mission verse and a hankering to sing with Sister Reese once again. I feel a road trip coming on...once the roads have melted and are no longer being used as nature's weapon of choice to attempt to do me in, that is.
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| Super Sister Songwriting team of Reese and Haws. |
Low Traction
(Written January 3, 2001)
To the tune of "O Ye Mountains High", LDS Hymn #34
Here in Can-a-da high
The snow falls from the sky
making roads all around us oh so slick!
Our car slides to the right
And we scream out in fright;
Thank Heaven anti-lock breaks do the trick!
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| Playing snow basketball in the Stratford Branch parking lot on P-day. |
Low traction! No traction!
Hear our anti-lock breaks sing!
As across town we slide,
It's one heck of a ride!
We just pray we sur-vive until spring!
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| Stratford Sister's Apartment |
In my post-mission life
I still face snowy-strife
Icy roads often make me fume and fuss
When I feel my car slide
Now there's one real bright side
No mission tag means I feel more free to cuss!
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| One of the many snow-covered streets in my cute, yet potentially deadly, Cow Town. |
Low traction! No traction!
Hear my anti-lock breaks sing!
As across town I slide,
It's one heck of a ride!
I just pray I sur-vive until spring!
