hell froze over this year!

It snowed today! I was worried that the whole winter would pass us by without any winter-type precipitation. Too bad it had to happen on a weekend, when we wouldn’t get to miss work. I guess that would be too much to ask for, for two years in a row!

It snowed pretty steadily from sometime after 2 a.m. (when I went to sleep), on through 6 a.m. (when work called me to tell me to post a closing notice on their web site), and it kept going hard until about 1 this afternoon. it spit minor flakes the rest of the day. the snow was really wet and fluffy, so it was perfect for packing snowballs. We walked across the street to the park and built a snowman. It’s amazing how much energy it takes to build one of those guys. You have to walk in a crouching position a lot. The backs of my legs are going to be sore! It just serves to remind me how much more energy I had when i was younger. Bleah!

I made a snow angel in the front yard (ha! yes, I’m five years old). We took a walk, built the snowman, and took the cats out into the courtyard to explain to them that the world outside the four walls of their loving warm house is fraught with wet cold uncomfortable peril, and why would they ever want to try to sneak out the front door? Two hours later when we left to go see a movie (“Mystic River,” I love Tim Robbins), someone had knocked our snowman over. Sigh.