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Kindness is like snow-it beautifies everything it covers.~~Croft M. Pentz
Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.~~Betty White
Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.~~William Hamilton Gibson
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.~~Lewis Carroll
Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.~~Jess Lair
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?~~J. B. Priestley
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Up front, plain as day, I shall tell you I do not like cold weather. Don't like winter. BUT! That very first full-on snow storm is pure magic! I love that first dumping of six inches (or more!) of snow. I love how it changes the world, etches each branch in ermine, and makes it all so bright and clean. I love the flashes of color; blue, red, black and white of the birds at the feeder. If I haven't been bitten by the Christmas bug yet, I will be then and instantly want to get the tree! Which I didn't need to do because bright and blurry Friday morning we went out and got our tree, as we do every year the day after Thanksgiving. Even if there hadn't been a storm coming, we'd have done that!
It's also a great time to people-watch. Before the storm even arrives, people (in general) go into spazz mode. They must think it will snow for weeks straight. Not a shopping cart to be seen. None. The entire town must be panic shopping. Why else are they buying three 18-packs of toilet paper? Milk? Better grab two gallons. Six loaves of bread! We ran to the store because we needed a half-gallon of milk, some bread, and coffee. Not six weeks' worth. Just milk, bread, and coffee. We still have tons of leftovers from Turkey Day. Besides, the freezers are full. All three of them. (Do NOT ask me why we have three freezers!)
Good thing we did not need TP, paper towels, or batteries--shelves were empty! We grabbed one of the five or six loaves of bread left. Good thing Hubby likes wheat bread because the rest was history. Lines ranged halfway down the aisles! We were lucky: we only had three things, not an overflowing cart! But the people were funny! Racing around like it was Snow-ma-geddon or something! Folks in line are comparing 'worst-case scenarios.' "I heard eight inches." "Really? I heard fourteen!" "Remember when we got two feet a few years back?" And that. That comment sparked the war stories spanning fifty years of snowstorms and blizzards! My hubby and I grinned at each other as the stories grew wilder and longer. "That's almost as good as watching TV," he said as we left the store!
Next stop, the gas station, because it is the end of the week and he always gets gas on Friday. Fifteen minutes in line before we even got to the pump. He also had a five-gallon container to put gas in the snowblower. Tiny convenience store packed with people. Except for us and one other lady, everyone was hauling two or three cases of beer and pop to the counter.
That afternoon, hubby dug out the snowblower, aired up the tires, and filled the gas tank with the gas/oil mixture. He filled the bird feeders. Filled the woodbin by the house and hauled in enough wood to get us through until morning. Then we focused on decorating the tree, finishing it up on Saturday just as the snow began to fall.
Big, fat, fluffy flakes. Those magical ones are dancing and swirling around. About an hour in, the storm got down to business. You couldn't even see across the street! It was beautiful! The birds were out in droves. Splashes of color flashing against the white. Not bothered in the slightest by the snow, my farmboy hubby decided it was time to put the house lights up. So out he went and did just that. Check! The last house on the street finally had their lights up!
Sunday morning, hubby went out and snow-blew the entire neighborhood! We only ended up with like six inches. Sigh. Still, snowmen sprouted and he and a neighbor had a brief snowball fight. Then the calls started. "Might you have any extra milk? We ran out!" "Can we snag like six slices of bread?" "We forgot birdseed and our birds are starving!" Yes, yes, and yes. We cleaned your driveways and fed you. Happy day!
People are funny. They just act different when the days are outside of the 'norm.' But this is Michigan. Normal really just does not apply! You'd think folks would be used to this. Guess not!But they are fun to watch. They are fun to giggle at. Or, maybe, we are just easily amused. There is that!
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