Do you love snow, or are you like the king? I said to one of my colleagues at work once,
You don’t like snow, do you Tai-sen?
He looked around and saw a poster on my wall of a mountain topped with snow and said,
Oh, I love snow. Up on the mountains, but not down here on the roads.
It depends on how much we have, doesn’t it? A Wall Street Journal article today — behind a pay wall 🙁 — talked about South Texas getting snow in 2004:
When the power goes out, the one item in her freezer that Loren Dykes races to save is a 15-year-old snowball.
“I don’t know if it’s technically still called snow, but it’s something,” she said. “It looks like a bit of crunchy ice.”
Christmas Day 2004 marked the first time snow fell in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley in 109 years. Residents raced to make their first snow angels, build their first snowmen and have their first snowball fights. Many had never before seen snow. Some considered it a miracle.
Apparently a lot of people have been trying to preserve their snowballs in their freezers, and the article talks about the technical problems involved.
I was raised in California and we had snow twice. The first time it was just a few flakes, but in high school there was enough for a couple of boys to make snowballs. Yes, it did seem like a miracle.
I have to admit, after over 50 years of living where it snows in winter, I now take that miracle for granted.
January 22, 2020
No matter how old I am, nor where I am at, snow falling immediately makes me feel young again…like a kid that might get a snow day. However, now we don’t venture out like we used to do.
You might get a laugh if you go HERE…I hope you don’t mind if I give a link to my blog…you have to scroll down to below the pics to get to the story.
I fixed the link. (I tried telling you how but it messes up this answer.) I’m more than happy when people share links. That was scary! Hurray for Roger for avoiding an accident or going over the bank. What a precious memory. Thanks!
Well the link does not work for me…it has been so long since I did a link! Anyway, it is the post of Dec 14, 2018….
I just clicked on your name and got to your site… and watched your little granddaughter dance to her Daddy playing the drums… it was delightful! much better than snow. although I love snow!
here in the middle of our state we’ve only had a cold steady drizzle of rain all day. not a beautiful flake of snow! and yet in other places in the same state…
they got the white stuff! sad.
Yes, we miss snow if we don’t get any. 😀
Thank you Jean…I never mind links either….unless it is spam. LOL We still laugh about that so much. At the time it was a case of laugh or be hysterical. But every now and then, if it is snowing, I ask him if he wants to go for a drive, and we start laughing all over again.
That’s the beauty of good long-term marriages, there are so many stories and family jokes to be shared. And that one is a beauty.
Honesty? I can’t imagine living where it doesn’t snow. I love the clear-cut changing of the seasons. Snow has so many faces—some pretty, some ugly. then there’s night snow so beautiful under the streetlight and day time snow that can sparkle in the sun or be deadly in the fog. I don’t like ALL snowfalls but I like my share of them.
We love our winters here — we get the snow and also a lot of sunshine.
I agree with Tai-sen – but only because I’ve never experience snow at my front door!
OOOOOO my memory has slipped…and yes I often slipped and slid on snow and ice in wintry England. I remember once during the festive holidays we went for a walk in a park we knew well, near my sisters place. Unfortunately we forgot about the ditch. One minute we were all well above the ground (Maybe ankle deep in the snow) the next up to our waists!
I enjoyed the snow in out in the country, but when I went back to work in London, it was sludge – pushed up snow at corners – and icy patches…
But now the it’s definitely “no snow” here right – but it’s fair blazing hot…
I think snow in the country is a lot prettier than snow in cities. And it’s the ice in either place that can be treacherous.
Snow is very pretty when it first falls, but after everyone has been trampling through it and turning it into slush, it looks awful. Fortunately Belfast has had no snow so far this winter. Long may that continue.
Fingers crossed for you. Do you usually get much snow? I know in cities it’s not as pretty as in the country. Down here in town it’s melting already, so we have some puddles of water.
Snow is pretty and I wouldn’t mind it so much if I never had to go out in it unless I wanted to. I would say I’ve seen enough of it over the years now that the thrill is gone.
That’s the thing — having to go in it. It makes a big difference if one is still working.