We got a tree today -- our first one in years. The house smells wonderful. The strange part, though, is that we shopped for a tree in t-shirts and shorts, and while we were getting all the Chrismahanakwanzaka decorations out of the attic, we had the house's windows flung wide, letting in the warm air. I think it's supposed to stay in the mid-70s for at least the next several days, and we're only a couple of weeks from Christmas!
Now, I'm not exactly complaining, because I loves me some nice weather, but it doesn't feel much like Christmas down here in Tennessee (we went to a neighborhood holiday brunch this morning and the hosts had to turn on the AC when it started to get hot in the house!). I guess I'm just thinking that those of you who have been seeing lots of snow lately might, while you're cursing the weather as you shovel off the driveway, also give a nod to how picturesque it can be, and how it can put one into the proper mood for this time of year. And I'll try to remember that if it were cold enough to snow, I'd be grumbling about having to put on closed-in shoes and struggling to keep the ends of my fingers from cracking in the dry air...
Anyway, whether or not you have snow in your neck of the woods, have a great week!
Now, I'm not exactly complaining, because I loves me some nice weather, but it doesn't feel much like Christmas down here in Tennessee (we went to a neighborhood holiday brunch this morning and the hosts had to turn on the AC when it started to get hot in the house!). I guess I'm just thinking that those of you who have been seeing lots of snow lately might, while you're cursing the weather as you shovel off the driveway, also give a nod to how picturesque it can be, and how it can put one into the proper mood for this time of year. And I'll try to remember that if it were cold enough to snow, I'd be grumbling about having to put on closed-in shoes and struggling to keep the ends of my fingers from cracking in the dry air...
Anyway, whether or not you have snow in your neck of the woods, have a great week!
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Abnormally high temps, no rain or snow. It's not a pretty picture. I'm so hoping next year brings a slow moving tropical depression up through the southeast...not too windy, just wet.
To paraphrase the country music group Alabama
"Christmas in Dixie
It's 80 in the pines!"
But I am at the age where if I never see any more snow around here it will suit me. I know it is pretty and you cannot beat the incredible silence that follows a good deep freshly fallen snow. I still don't long for the hassle the snow also always brings.
Buck, when I go home (western NY) now, I love to see the snow... through the window. ;-D I may have transformed into a southern wuss when it comes to the cold, but I'll always miss the beautiful whites of winter.
June, that's just what I'm hoping for -- and you'll have to remind me of that fact a few months from now when I'm lamenting "yet another freakin' day of rain!"
I think I really want to avoid snow and ice because I cannot drive in it.
I have to let my wife drive. She insists. She spent many years up in the mountains of Western North Carolina and she can get around in snow and ice. She makes fun of me.
Believe me. There is no bottom to the pit known as emasculation.
LOL!
Buck, I love your wife.
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