Last Friday we picked up our (new to us) 2008 Honda Odyssey. Here are some comparison pictures of the front of new van and our old van (which had a close visit with a deer:)
And here is the exploded airbag on the Montana. If the van was repairable (which it isn’t really) we would have to replace the two front seat-belts which automatically locked into place in the crash! Amazingly, the two front headlights are totally intact.
Last Friday, January 17, we were waiting for Dad to get home from work, so we could drive to a 7:00 Bible Study in Hepburn. Around 6: 30, we phoned to ask him where he was, and he told us that he had hit a deer! We quickly jumped in the van and drove down Highway 312. When we saw two vehicles parked by the side of the road, we pulled up and exited the van, with warnings to be careful. After seeing the smashed front of the van and the exploded airbag, we saw the police truck barreling down the highway and pulling up, and then we had to leave!
Our van is the green one in the middle of the picture.
The watchdogs were carefully guarding all the vehicles in the jail!
We found out that the other vehicle at the scene had hit the deer before Dad, and it had rolled over their car and landed smack-dab in front of Dad! The man in the other car had tried to warn Dad by flashing his brights. Dad looked down to see if his were on, looked up and plowed into the deer at full speed, which, in turn sent the deer flying, the airbag exploding, and Dad halting. We are thankful that Dad didn’t get hurt!
James 4: 14, 15- Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Yesterday was just one of those days that almost “blows you away”!:-)
We had winds over 100 km/hr and the temperature was above 0, which is very rare for January! In the morning a crane’s boom got swung around by the wind, knocking out the power supply to Rosthern and area for a couple of hours.
On New Year’s Day, we went skiing to a creek that is about 3/4 of a mile from our house. We go there basically every year, and have lots of fun skiing down the slopes. This year it was bitterly cold, and some people didn’t last long!
Levi is coming down the slope. He competed with Dad to see who could get the farthest (and won because he stayed out longer to keep trying!).
The patterns on these drifts are amazing!
Levi at the bottom of the “hill”. It was hard to stay up in all that snow. We didn’t get any pictures of us falling down in the snow, but if you look carefully to the end of my poles, you can see where the tracks end.
Finally, here is the final pictures of Heidi’s skis. Everyone else went in before we could get pictures of them.
It was fun enjoying God’s beautiful creation in -30 degree weather together as a family :-)!
(Post written by Micah and Levi)
This comes from Answers In Genesis, a website I highly recommend! Sadly the right half of the cartoon is very true in North America today.
