Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day! It’s a lovely day here. All white with gusty winds and some sun attempting to peek through the clouds. There are a few flakes drifting in the wind but I’m not sure if they’re actually falling from the sky or being buffeted by the somewhat strong upon occasion breeze.

Before plowing/shoveling this morning.

Yesterday we had a snow day. It didn’t really start snowing in earnest until after school would have started but by the time school would have been out, there were a few inches. Funny that the same storm 30 to 40 years ago would have resulted in maybe an early release but we would have trudged home through the snow. There might have been hot chocolate involved. There may have been shoveling snow involved. There may have been homework. There may have been a fire to sit by while drinking that hot chocolate and doing homework. But there would have been school.

After plowing/shoveling this morning.

I have decided that there is a huge difference between where I grew up, Siskiyou County, California, and Massachusetts. It’s called population. In Massachusetts in 1978 there was a blizzard. It dumped three feet of snow and made drifts up to second story windows and stopped life for a week or so. People still talk about it like it was a huge deal and, for here, I think it must have been. In McCloud, I remember having storms that dumped up to three feet of snow. I kind of doubt they made the news. I remember seeing pictures of the winder I was born or maybe the winter before where the snow was up to the top of Grandma and Papa’s porch. I remember the same thing happened in 1996. People here say that the difference between here and the south is that they get an inch or two of snow in the south and it closes everything down for a week but here they clean up and get on with life the next day. The difference between here and Siskiyou County is that except in the worst storms, life continues on. Storm? Yeah, so what? In all honesty, I do remember Grandma talking about a storm that did shut things down for a few days. I’d be willing to bet the same storm would have shut things down for longer than a few days if it happened almost anywhere else.

Anyway, that is all for now. Have a fantastic day!