Saturday, December 13, 2008

Winter is HERE...

Four inches of snow on my car last night....all night long I listened to it falling off the trees and out buildings..I dreamed of monsters marching through my living room..knocking things down with their tails as they went along......boom boom, rumble, roar.....Winter is Here...all we need do is open the door....It's supposed to be below zero here in a few days...I mean way below...as much as 15 below.

As children we used to walk to the school buss on the sparkling cold crust of the winters snow. If you were small enough....Light enough...you could travel a long way like that before falling through and barking your shins. The shins weren't the worst of that problem..The very worst was the boot top was below the level of the layer of new snow. The boot filled with snow. All the way to school one had to sit in ice cube cold boots! When we got to school we had to change our shoes, we carried clean Socks in our coat pockets...boy that was a smelly coat room!!! It was best to save an old lunch bag to put them in. Unless you wanted your pocket to smell like your wet feet when you took the early morning pair home! Mom's usually had small minds about such goings on. School Janitors didn't help either. Every Friday they threw out everything on the floor of the cloak room. Every Friday.....You best take care your extra pairs of socks!








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