My snow angels

To the editor,

I grew up here in Flathead Valley and moved to Florida, where I went to school and ended up getting married and living there for the past six years. My husband is a U.S. Airman and took a contracting job overseas for a year. In August we had a beautiful daughter and decided that I would enjoy living closer to family while he was away.

Six weeks after our daughter was born, we packed up our belongings and traveled across the country to settle here in Columbia Falls. It has been awhile since I've seen snow, and I thought life here in the north was going pretty well until it started snowing. I had a diaper emergency and needed to run to the store a few blocks away., but plows piled the snow around my car parked along the street. I was pretty well stuck and near tears when I looked over my shoulder and saw a man with a shovel. He shoveled the snow away so I could ease out. After thanking him, I immediately drove to purchase a shovel.

Returning home, I saw that my hero with the shovel had cleared a space for my car. I put my daughter down for a nap and went out to shovel a path from my car to the door. As I shoveled, another hero appeared. He plowed my garage space, pushing away the hated snow banks.

It is amazing to know that there are still good people in the world who will help a person in trouble without being asked. So, thank you to those who helped a freaked-out mom with a screaming daughter in the back. You have made me at peace with my decision to move to snowy Montana. I may stay here a little longer because of you.

Anne Spradley

Columbia Falls