Syracuse usually secures between 100 to 200 inches of snow a year. We pride ourselves on so little, but Syracuse Basketball and 20 feet of snow will make our chests swell with honor.
Yet, this year has been different. No, not different in the way of Lady Gaga or the duck billed platypus. We've had no snow to speak of this winter. In mid January of 2012 and up until today (Friday the 13th), this winter has only blessed us with a mere pittance of a wimpy dusting of snow ... for the whole winter. Now if it seems to you that I'm one of those odd frozen ducks who loves the white frozen happiness that falls so gently from the heavens... I'm sure it was a lucky guess.
Yes, Al Gore's Global Warming has reared it's ugly head in Central New York. The shame of it all. We water skied the week before Halloween. We jogged in early December in tee shirts and shorts. The horses have been caked in mud from what seemed like the never ending Spring. This has been the first green Christmas since Nixon was not a crook.
But today, Friday the 13th, behold the eternal beauty of snow. We've had close to a foot of the hardened H2O today and more to come tomorrow, the 14th. Yes, we're talking the proverbial "Winter Wonder Land" and "The Luster of mid-day of objects below"
We can make snow angels, snow men, snow caves, snow balls and snow forts like we were once again 10 years old with our frosted wool mittens barely able to bend in the subzero arctic cold.
We can trudge to the mail box watching our foot prints form deep craters in the alien like land ... and then carefully trace our own foot steps back as if to hide from the hounds sniffing the scent of our trail.
We can feel the cold pinching our rosy cheeks like an over affectionate grandma on holiday schnapps binge.
The horses can dance, play and roll in the snow and survive perfectly cleansed, except for the odd little icicles that dangle from their whiskers.
Yes, I love the snow. Yes, I'm a little different. No, not like Lady Gaga.
When it comes to weather, I am happy with "average".
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We haven't had any snow either, except for the 22 inches on Halloween. It's good and cold though 0-15 yesterday and today. I could leave the snow in the sky though. Don't mind it as long as I don't have to drive too far. Glad you're enjoying it, make a snow angel for me.
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ReplyDeleteSo jealous! I've been waiting for snow on the west coast since winter started and still nothing. :(
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