Winter!
Ah yes, Winter. A glorious time of year that fills one's head with visions of snow covered vistas, icicles hanging from the roof's edge, and wonderful outdoor adventurous sports.
Snow skiing sounds like fun.
My personal preference would be tooling around on a snowmobile.
Of course, since we have a small lake on the farm, ice skating would fit in nicely.
However, as nature would have it, we don't get picture book winters. Snow covered ground is a rare and very temporary condition. We get this.
That's right, mud. Between short bouts of freezing temperature, we get lots of cold rain, which produces lots of cold mud. Oh, fun and joy.
Sometimes, we get rain even when the surface temperature is below freezing. That's called freezing rain and it produces a coating of ice on everything. Everything includes the power lines and trees, which snap from the extra weight. That produces power outages. One year, almost everyone for fifty miles in every direction was without electricity for up to a week.
Our winters suck.
the Grit
Snow skiing sounds like fun.
My personal preference would be tooling around on a snowmobile.
Of course, since we have a small lake on the farm, ice skating would fit in nicely.
However, as nature would have it, we don't get picture book winters. Snow covered ground is a rare and very temporary condition. We get this.
That's right, mud. Between short bouts of freezing temperature, we get lots of cold rain, which produces lots of cold mud. Oh, fun and joy.
Sometimes, we get rain even when the surface temperature is below freezing. That's called freezing rain and it produces a coating of ice on everything. Everything includes the power lines and trees, which snap from the extra weight. That produces power outages. One year, almost everyone for fifty miles in every direction was without electricity for up to a week.
Our winters suck.
the Grit
posted by Brit & Grit at 10:42 AM
3 Comments:
Hi Erik,
We had snow the weekend before Christmas two years ago, which turned out to be bad timing. That was the night of our Christmas party, about 30 guests, and even though the snow was melting as it hit the ground, everyone was gone in 15 minutes.
the Grit
The only time I'll get to slide on ice this year is when the council bring in the fake ice rink in to the town square.
The only thing certain about weather in Memphis is that it will change before you can get used to it.
the Grit
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