I was thinking...

When Mr. I-Love-to-Fret-About-the-Weather reported that the prediction was for snow and icy driving conditions, I was thinking of what a novelty snow is here. It might have happened once when I was growing up in south GA, just too far south to get cold enough. And thinking of what an uncommon occurrence it is here. Maybe once every six or eight years. 

I was recently looking at photos of years past, when daughters, probably in their early teens, had put effort into creating a snowman in the front yard.  It is such a rarity here in middle GA, much excitement is easily generated over the prospect of enough to smoosh together to make a few snowballs. So when there is enough to roll some into balls and build a snow man (though the volume of the 'man' was at least fifty percent leaves, twigs and pinestraw) it's a pretty big deal. 

And thinking of enough to stick on the ground, I remember when we were soooo excited about the white stuff, when they were very small, I took them out wearing plastic bags over there feet. I put on double socks, and plastic shopping bags, then put their little canvas sneakers on. I knew the shoes would soon be soaked through, and did not want their feet to be cold and wet, so thought bags would keep them dry...Fortunately it was before we had neighbors, so there was no one else out and around to laugh at the crazy mama with her little birdies playing in the snow.

At some point - maybe the next time, years later, when we had enough to accumulate and cover the ground, we wanted to slide down the steep hill in the front yard. With no proper cold weather gear, we decided the most method was on the lid of the garbage can. With little opportunity to actually go sledding, and nothing more sled-like to use for whizzing down the slippery slope - why would a trash can lid not be adequate for swooshing down the hill amidst the tree limbs and briars?  You know to expect to get dumped out at the bottom any way, and there is really no controlling the speed or direction - so why not just go ahead and be daresome? It was cold, and wet, and great fun. As in: "we'll have some good fun that is funny".