Winterland

Today was a beautiful day at work, it was cold and snowing, remind me about home (Sweden).

The day started like any other day, of the 30 funerals we had schedule, surprisingly only two was cancelled.

The first one a had was a full honors service, my Air Force troops called twice to inform me their bus got stuck in the snow and sled.

Funeral home called and said they where going to be on time, family had flown in from Hawaii, looked like a good start, until....

Funeral director called, and told me the coach had broke down on the exit ramp going to the cemetery.

He had no way to get the casket there on time.

NIGHTMARE!!!!

We got hold on the cemetery's funeral coach...me and my collage located the funeral car, I stopped traffic and Spencer backed our car in opposite direction down the exit ramp onto the highway, we parked in front of the funeral director, pulled out the heavy metal casket, and placed it on a wiggly little cart, diffidently NOT made for being used in the snow, then we pushed the casket, till we could place it in our car, this while cars where driving by in the middle of a rush hour snowstorm, I didn't know if I should laugh or cry!!

We made it to the grave site 20 minutes late..

Colonel Harris is now safe and sound sleeping in his grave, despite the last little adventure out on the highway ;-)