I know, you already knew that. It’s currently cold, stupid cold. Like 4 degrees this morning cold. Like, any uncovered body part will fall off in 15 minutes cold. Stupid cold
It snowed. Maybe 4 inches. Enough to keep Maverick home from daycare because the driveway from Hell was snowed in and as Bear was plowing it clear, it started snowing again. What the heck, Mother Nature! So Maverick spent the day wanting to go outside and I spent the day making him come back in because, read above, stupid cold. Bear spent the day plowing and shoveling and using the snow blower.
It’s meant to snow again – maybe – on Friday. Another 1-3 inches. Is it Spring yet?
People get all kinds of weird about snow. When I was a kid, there was a lady weather forecaster on the local TV station – WNYT, channel 13, Albany, NY – named Betty. The weather report was about 5 minutes long, if that. She had a little white dog named Moo. It seems to me that Betty was always correct because she would simply walk to the window, Moo in her arms, and look outside. (I’ve searched for any existing video but it was before all that jazz) (I was a wee child)
I miss the days of “it’s gonna rain, take an umbrella” and “it’s gonna snow, probably a few inches, drive carefully” and we’re done. I do not care about the temperature in Texas (I live in PA). I was watching the “news” the other day and I think the weather segment was 15 minutes long.
All of this seems to make people get weird. I went for gas today – because the car is on 1/4 tank and my Poppa taught me to never get it below that. The gas station was already busy. I can understand if you have a truck and you want to fill up to be able to plow, but if it snows that much, where the heck are you going in your little Cavalier that doesn’t have snow tires?
The people on the weather pages are especially weird. The call of the snow lovers appears to be “BRING IT!” And then the battles erupt! ”If you don’t like it, move! No, YOU move! NO, YOU MOVE!” Meanwhile one page on Facebook, who happened to hit it right a few years ago when all the others predicted a few inches and we got 3 feet, is highly amusing to read because that went straight to their heads and they’ve become masters of hype ever since. WE’RE GETTING A BLIZZARD! Ooops, delete that, where did we ever say we were getting a blizzard? The comments are hilarious.
Tomorrow is my normal grocery day (Friday). If it’s snowing, I won’t go out. People here don’t know how to drive in snow and my driveway – well, I’ve already mentioned that it was designed by a drunken Irishman on a three week binge. (I’m Irish, I can say that kind of thing) So I will probably get groceries today since we need very little but I don’t want to wait till the weekend. The gas station is across the parking lot from the grocery store, so I checked out the parking lot. Yup, already nuts.
So I will get my bread, milk and eggs and make French Toast tomorrow. :) Maverick will be home from daycare and probably the Bear will also be home, or at least taking the good car to work so he can navigate the driveway when he comes home. (I would prefer he stay home. Even though he’ll watch MASH all day, he’ll be safe) I’m planning my sewing projects, because Maverick will hang out in the craft room with me and not drive me nuts wanting to go for a walk.
And it’s only 62 days till Spring.
And after I wrote this, we got another four inches of snow, Bear went to work on Friday afternoon, didn’t like the look of the roads so came home and slid off the driveway. He spent yesterday plowing again, and we called a friend to help pull the car up to the garage. No damage done to Bear or car, just a whole lot of stress and annoyance. (He didn’t realize there was ice under the coating of snow we got AFTER he plowed three times)
It’s still january and I’m ready for this crap to be over. One person tells me February is meant to be worse and I may just curl up in a ball and come out in April.
Suziecreamcheese Sings the Blues 
Not a fan of the sub-zero wind chill temps. I want snow for Christmas then it can be gone.
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The cold just makes it worse.
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I had a little Westie, years ago. She loved snow and burrowed through it. She had 2 coats of fur. I know goldens have thick hair, so you must know the joys of those little snowballs. I’d just wait till she melted.
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Maverick has more silky fur – he’s part field lines – think Bush Beans Duke – so it slides off him more. Much less care than Max was in that area!
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Grab your knitting and hunker down! I love the cold and snow in the winter and heat and humidity in the summer. I do agree that the debates on social media are ridiculous!
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I wish I could but my shoulder is acting up so I can only knit or crochet for a few rows till I have to stop. If Bear didn’t work and Maverick was calmer and we didn’t have to go no anywhere I might not hate it so much!
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I totally get that. The extent of my winter activity is my daily walk.
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Yeah, I’m not a big fan of winter either, I grew up off and on in NM so I miss the desert SW, dry heat and if it gets down to teens in the day and single digits at night it’s cold. lt would snow once in a while and when it did, they canceled school, cos no one knows how to drive in it, lol.
I will put my spring sign on my door March 1st and dream of when spring really gets here :P.
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I grew up in Upstate NY – I’ve seen more than my share of snow. People here don’t know how to drive in it. And media hype makes everyone stupid about it. I already have my “Spring can’t get here soon enough “ wreath on the door. 😁. I have no winter wreath, by the way. 😂
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HAHA, I think I need to find one of those door hangers, where did you find yours, LOL. I lived in MA for one winter while my dad went to school for his new civilian job after he retired from the service and all I can say is, oh my the snow, made me thing of the joke, I walked to school up hill in the snow both ways!!!
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The elementary school I attended was at the top of a hill – and the road went down one hill and up
to the school, so I can say I walked uphill both ways and it’s true! 😂.
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Driving in snow? Yuck, no. I’m a big enough idiot, though, that I still enjoy walking and playing in it. Are you in the mountains? Hope you get a break from the accumulation soon. If you lived here, it would be 55’ on Friday. At least your snow would melt.
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I’m in South Central PA- not too far from Gettysburg. I live on a hill in the woods- a beautiful place, really – with a stupid driveway! I grew up in NY – I know snow – people here have no idea how to drive in it. That does not include the Bear, no one is good on ice
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Okay, I don’t HATE winter. Snow is pretty when it is falling and for about an hour after it stops falling. I live about 2-1/2 hours northeast of you and I envy the beauty of snow from a house on a hill in the woods! I live on the main street of a little borough and except for groceries, I have to go to another little town for places like Walmart. I can tolerate snow because I’m a bit of a recluse by choice, so it’s not a big difference for me. I ‘nest’ for the winter so that I don’t have to go out very often, and when I do have to go out, I plan multiple errands on that day so I can come home again and get out of the cold. I also don’t HATE summer. The humidity levels reek terrible issues to me physically, so I tend to spend as much time inside during the summer as I do in the winter.
I have to be okay with the cold and snow this year – it’s only fair since the snow bunnies and skiers didn’t have the kind of winter they wanted for the two previous years.
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Honestly, if everyone is home and we don’t have to go anywhere, I don’t mind it too much. I don’t like feeling trapped – we’ve been stuck up here a few times when we couldn’t get out, but it’s more the fear that no one can get in that stalks me. Bear has some health issues and I worry he’s gonna forget he’s not 21!
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