THIS IS WHAT I DO. I KNIT, I COOK, I SEW, I MAKE THINGS, AND I TRAVEL, AS OFTEN AS I CAN.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Winter isn't really my favorite season.

I could hear the rain falling as I was getting ready for work yesterday morning, but I really don't remember when I couldn't hear it falling on the roof anymore. Then when I opened the front door to leave for school, there it was.... snow. Lightly falling, trying to stick to the car windows and leaves on our oak tree. It was really slushy, the kind of snow we in North Texas don't see very often. It was the kind of snow that West Texas gets, the kind I grew up with.

This would mean that I'd be answering the gazillion phone calls, "are we having school today?"from my head set in the hall as I let the kids in so they didn't have to stand out in the cold. Seems they come to school a lot earlier when they know they have a chance to get muddy or wet.

Snow.... it makes people in North Texas loose their minds. We don't know how to drive in it, they think they can handle it but they really have no clue what they are doing. We don't get enough practice, it's not our fault. Not that I want us to have more practice. This is not the time or place for snow.

Dawn was out taking pictures for our school website. Not me, I stuck my camera out the door of the school to take the picture of the parking lot/school yard and the picture of Dawn was taken from inside through a window. I'm not going out there in my peep-toe high heels! I'm only a fan of the grainy white stuff... you know the kind that gets stuck in your crevices when you go to the beach.

I went out and picked all the remaining bell peppers off my plants last night in the dark with a flash light. We're due for a WHOLE lot more of this stuff tomorrow. : (

8 comments:

Margarita Mirasol said...

That's such a sweet image of you plucking your bell peppers in the dark.

Acorn to Oak said...

Wow! That's amazing! I had no idea you ever got snow there. It's probably like where I live...a verrrry rare event. I think it's fun on those rare events. But, I'm with you, I'm a much bigger fan of the white stuff on the beach! :-)

northern musings said...

Ha!!! call that snow... nah
I won´t go on - I hate the wet sludgie stuff too, its nicer if it comes without wind or too much wetness and like north texans I am not too good at driving in it...
Still it´s nice when something different happens, a break in the routine is always good.

judith said...

M.. I was ripping the branches off the plant... the little boogers didn't want to come off.

A-O, we get snow at least once a year. More likely it's not snow but ice... the way our weather is the snow melts before it hits the ground so it's more like rain and then if the wind is blowing it freezes it and we end up with sleet. It was just right yesterday for the snow, didn't get below 32F until last night when it was 27.

NM, you are the official snow queen. I couldn't imagine living up there with snow on the ground from Sept. to May, or is it June?

I think I could handle living in the desert, where it's just sunny and hot all the time.

Suzie said...

Oh, I barely remember the snow we had when I was growing up in Big Spring. They closed the school! It was a really big deal. And now in South Carolina, it snows once every few years but I haven't seen it on the ground. That is not a bad thing!

judith said...

Ttales, we need to talk, email me at judithcruzan@yahoo.com I need to see if we have some mutual friends from Big Spring.

Jim and Heather on Meerkat said...

OMG. I wouldn't be able to leave the boat.

judith said...

Yeah Heather, I stood in the doorway saying "Say it isn't snow..." I didn't want to go. But it was gone within a matter of hours.