Baby's First Snow (and Freezing Rain, and Sleet)

It started to snow yesterday afternoon! There is an exclamation point at the end of that first sentence because it is our first real snow of the year (we had a few flurries a few weeks ago) and we are not sick of winter yet. Unless we someday happen to work in the ski resort industry, you won't ever see exclamation points after sentences that report the 2nd snow of the year. The 6th snow of the year is to be met with moderate weeping.

We got about an inch, enough to cover everything in white. Then this morning we got a layer of ice on top of that. I'm not sure, meteorologically speaking, why some places get either snow or rain (Flagstaff, Pocatello, New Hampshire) and other places are so prone to ice storms (Charlotte).

We were excited to take Spud out into the winter wonderland. As it turns out, he was pretty much not pleased with the cold wind, and didn't seem to be quite pleased until we got back inside. Snow is pure magic to 5-year-olds, so it seems we will have to wait a bit for a positive reaction.







The ice has made the hill at the end of our road fairly impassable to vehicular traffic, so we are hunkered down, enjoying a nice fire in the fireplace. We took the opportunity to take down the Christmas tree (Hey, it is STILL officially January). It was starting to lose needles at a rapid rate.