here it is, here at last: the first snowfall. sure we've flirted with the snow a bit in the past few weeks, some flurries here, freezing rain there, but nothing stuck. until about 2 pm this afternoon. since then we have maybe 4ish inches on the ground (and counting).
i have never lived through a year where i did not have to deal with snow and bitter cold. living in wisconsin, it's just life. i can tell if it's below zero just by breathing the air. i know to some people this much cold must be unfathomable but here it is the norm.
snow and i have a love hate relationship. we have some good memories: snowmen, snow angels and the like. one time my family was in the lifetime section of the local newspaper because our neighbor (who happened to write for said newspaper) thought we looked like a norman rockwell painting all out in the snow as a family building a huge snowman.
then as i got older, snow removal became my chore. i have severe allergies so my sister mows the lawn and i take care of the snow. this works alright for us, but i wouldn't say its my favorite job. somehow after all these years of the vicious cold, i never get used to it. at least i don't have to do it early in the morning. well today. tomorrow i will. although it's dark out so i guess it's a horse a piece.
i must admit, it is beautiful. the first day after a big snowfall when it's all still on the trees and everything looks like a christmas card, no matter what it looks like normally, that's the best. by the time january rolls around the side of the road snow will be gray and nasty and all the parking lots will be ankle deep in brown slush that gets in my socks and makes me ten times colder. but i don't want to think about that right now. i just want to think about how pretty it looks :) and about how i'm going to get my first decent exercise in a while shoveling.
i'm off to brave the tundra armed only with my shovel and my ipod! wish me luck :)
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