Editor’s Note:

The predictions of snow and ice, like they were for much of you fellow Kentuckians, were significant for this weekend. Expectations were about as high as a 2-foot snow drift, only to be capped by sleet, freezing rain and winds that chill to the bone.

After all, folks, what do you get when you work your fingers to the bone?

Well, according to the country music iconic song…

You get boney fingers.

But I digress.

On Thursday, the three Goldens — Haggard (9 years old and the old man of the group), June Carter (3 and she does sing tenor) and Willie Nelson (2 and blessed with a mohawk from his forehead to his nose) — and I got the greatest of news. The lovely Leigh Ann was cutting her work week short a day and she was headed home.

It was like being back in grade school all over again and you could hear the little, brown transistor radio blaring in the kitchen over the frying of bacon and the reporter reading the list of school closings. You waited. You waited. You peeked out the window to see the hills covered and the snow still falling. And, then, finally, you heard the best news of the day. “No school today in Woodford County.”

Well…it was just the same thing, but coming from a near-70 year old rather than an old-10 year old.

You could hear us all squeal all the way from Hamlin, Ky. — located on the iceberg banks of the Tennessee River and Kentucky Lake — to the hallowed halls of the newest old Capitol’s temporary chambers in Frank’s Fort — located on the iceberg banks of the Kentucky River.

A long weekend cuddled up in the snow was just what the doctors had ordered. For all of us.

So, we got out and we took a few photos. Don’t know when we will be able to dig LA’s car out and extract it from Red River Drive. But we are having a blast while it lasts.

Just take a look. It’s fun until it isn’t…