So, after dark it isn't really that safe to drive. I was just trying to open my truck door yesterday morning and almost fell down because I didn't realize I was standing on black ice on a slope. Luckily I was trying to open the truck door and had a hold of the handle so I didn't go down. Then I looked over and saw how the melting snow from all the heaters had water coming down a drain pipe from the roof and was making black ice in the parking lot next to me. So, I got in my truck and moved it to another space so I wouldn't have this experience again. Last night I was exiting seeing the latest Star Wars movie with friends at the theater there in Mt. Shasta and realized I was again walking on black ice all across the parking lot. There was a truck warming up in front of me and usually I would walk to the right way away from a truck preparing to leave like that but this time the only place there wasn't black ice was right behind the truck to I took my chances of him backing out over me over sliding on black ice anymore. Once I got in my truck I found driving on black ice is much easier than walking on it because you have 4 points touching the ground instead of one at a time when walking. All I had to do was go very slowly and I was fine driving over black ice around town at about 9 pm last night.
I also made the mistake of not realizing this was a 3 day holiday when I came up here. The first clue I missed was I wasn't able to get a reservation for Saturday night at all. I tried again Saturday morning with no luck so i stayed at a friend's guest house which used to be a large Sauna which is an octagon which has 8 sides and they put crystals in the walls and under the floor. So, as I gaze out right now on acres of snow and beautiful Port Orford Cedar trees that are huge and look a lot like Redwood wood trees I'm realizing how not being able to rent a room in town turned out beautifully for me to be surrounded by so much beauty and good friends. We went to Black Bear Diner (the first one in the chain) here in Shasta and we had Chocolate Malts and french fries after the movie and it reminded me of good times with friends back as far as the 1950s at Windsor's drug store and the best ice cream in the state of California I had ever had at that time here in Mt. Shasta. They had the best ice cream cones and ice cream sodas and root beer floats and milkshakes anywhere and people came from miles around to go to Windsors especially in the summertime then. I think they were open until about 1974.
When the sunrise woke me this morning to the snow and trees I also noticed the icicles were getting longer with one 2 to 3 feet long coming off the roof of the Octagon I'm staying in. It was 24 degrees outside this morning so I stayed inside where it was toasty warm looking out the thermopane windows at all the snow and forest around me.
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