If I had my stuff together, I'd also share with you a cute picture of the Cutlet enjoying the snow – yes, snow! – in our back yard on Saturday. Weather forecasts leading up to the weekend overhyped the coming snowstorm to the point that I didn't think it would happen.
But then I woke up Saturday morning to head into work and there it was! A 3-inch white blanket covered the area, and it was on the roads just enough to make it interesting during my 10-mile drive to the office. By noon, the flakes had stopped falling and the roads were wet but no longer frozen.
Here's a few facts about snow in my part of Texas:
1. It never lasts long. By the next day, the only remnants of the snow were the melting mounds that were once snowmen.
2. Mittens today, shorts tomorrow (alternately, wool socks today and flip-flops tomorrow). It was 60 degrees on Monday, and we're told it will be in the 70s by Thursday.
3. There are two types of people in the world: people who can drive in snow, and people who shouldn't. Guess which group represents the majority in a place where it snows so infrequently that some 12-year-old kids had never seen it in their own yards until Saturday.
4. Just like everywhere else, don't eat the yellow snow.
5. The fast-melting snow makes the ground beneath it all muddy and mushy.
6. Few people have actual sleds in Texas. The ones who do either migrated from colder climates or have relatives who still live in the frozen tundra. Instead, you'll find kids riding on innertubes meant for lake use, trash-can lids, air mattresses and plastic garbage bags.
7. Neighbors search futily for snow shovels. "What's a snow shovel?" they often hear.
8. The birds here are really really confused.
9. Referring to No. 1, once a kid makes a decent snowman, there's generally not enough snow left for a snowball fight or cool snow fort.
10. Although Texas does not have a monopoly on changing weather, it amazes me how lifelong residents never seem to get used to it. "Crazy weather!" they'll shout to each other. Well, no, in reality it's just the same old same old. The more the weather changes, the more it stays the same.
As editor of a smalltown newspaper, I have been inundated with photo submissions showing people building snowmen. I could fill the paper full of them, and then take up any extra space with letters to the editor complaining about the weather. What a world! Stay cool, people.
Haha! There are people up here "natives" even that still can't drive in snow! It amazes me cause it snows here 10 months out of the year. Ok maybe not 10, 9!
Dew
At least you got the benefit of snow. It just got extremely cold here. I was hoping to see some snow so that the kiddo could finally play in some real stuff - not the snow machine kind.
Virginia Beach has gotten close to 12 inches of snow so far this year, with more predicted tomorrow.
The best thing about getting snow in the DFW area was how much we appreciated it. When I was small I remember building a snowman once while I was wearing shorts!
Yay, snow! Lately up in the NE it's been too darn cold for snow, but I hear we're getting some tonight.
I'm yearning for all our snow to melt and to get some Texas weather(the normal stuff)!
I know all you wacky Texans are just *loving* this snow...but if you could kindly make sure this odd winter weather has moved on by the time I arrive in Texas on Friday evening, I would greatly appreciate it.
Seriously, I have had my fill of winter and I don't want it following me all the way down there!
I lived in Texas for a school semester a while back (Temple) and I don't believe we ever had natural air in the house. Easy to go from heat to air and back to heat.
Never did see snow though. It's great for the kids.
snow in tx? will wonders never cease? how delightful!
miss you over at my corner of blogland. you'll be pleased to know that i may soon be saying: "t-bone, you were so right about..." well, about WHAT i leave for you to determine by forcing you to go read. (thumbs nose in your direction)
See, now how are you gonna tempt me with a cutlet picture, and then not show it?!?! No fair.
I want to see the Cutlet!
Abs x
The snow was great! We built two snow men. one right out in the middle of a grassy knoll on my property, and the other on top of my Jeep. My other snowman was so grrreat, that the neighbours went over and knocked my man down. That's okay, I take it as a compliment. Obviously, mine was better than theirs. Hm!
Snow! It was wonderful, wasn't it?! I don't think it has snowed THAT much in Central Texas in YEARS~my kids had a fine time out there doing their snowmen, as did the whole neighborhood. I think all the kids were up and outside by 8 a.m.
I hate snow!
The Icelander has spoken.
they really complain to you about the snow? what exactly are you going to do about it. that is odd to me...really odd.