Cancelled?

I don't believe it. The news just flew around the house. The bishopric of my father's ward has called off church today. I have lived in Utah for all of my life (aside from a two year stint in Idaho Falls, which we call North Salt Lake) and never in my 39 years have they called off church due to bad weather.

So I went outside with my cell phone to take pictures and check out how bad it really was - actually, I didn't go outside, I just opened the front door and a snow drift a foot high fell inside. I was intrigued with how the snow had accumulated on everything, sticking out as lacy protrusions on all vertical surfaces. And the details of the world was lost in a flurry of grey-white.

Much to my daughter's delight and my horror, we will be inside today watching her favorite musical, Cats. I appreciate this show for it's costumes and make-up which is believably catish. I, however, think it is the stupidest storyline of all time. I just don't get it. I looked it up on wikipedia to give you that link and discovered that it is based on a collection of poems by T. S. Elliot. Hence the reason I don't get it. It's not really a story after all, but a collection of poems. And, it requires me to focus way too hard to understand what they are singing to even begin understanding what is happening. It's about cats, for godssake. However, I realize that it is a most cherished, award winning show. But, still, it's about cats. Thusly, it is ranked amongst my daughter's top favorite movies of all time. I think she was born a cat in another lifetime.

At any rate, (I had an English teacher in high school named Mrs. Hess. She wore purple all the time from head to toe. Her lipstick was even purple. Her earrings were always baubly purple balls. Her hair was a steel-wool mass of bottle-bought copper. Every single day she was dressed in every shade of purple and her favorite saying was, "At any rate," in her quaking, gravelly, smoked-for-too-long-voice. We would count her usage of the cliche. One day, in a 90-minute class, we counted 96 declarations, "At any rate...")

Sooooo... at any rate. Church has been cancelled today. Apparently a storm bigger and worse than the one hitting us right now is scheduled to pound into the valley around noon. For the safety of the members, they are being advised to stay home.

As for our worshipping today, Baby and I are watching Cats and dad and his wife are balancing their checkbook. Hmmmm...