I am typing this and looking out the window ~ it is snowing, the wind blowing and the streets in front of our home have a nice coat of slick ice covering them. Oh, 'tis nothing but another winter in Kansas. The snow is always pretty, at least at first, and then it turns into a dirty, muddy mess that makes you long for warmer weather, fresh watermelon, the smell of cut green grass, and sunscreen coated children headed to the pool. We have a few more months until those things happen ~ I am reassured that winter doesn't last forever and soon we will experience biting into a fresh peach while the juice spills down our chin. Until then I will keep my cell phone on the charger and try to get everything washed up, in case we happen to lose power like many other residents of Riley County. I will keep my doors tightly closed to avoid the draft that 7 degrees (yes, you read that right) brings along with it.
Sierra is happy, because she and Connor are both going on snow day #2. Not sure if there will be a snow day #3, but I have a feeling the answer might just possibly be yes. Even LuLu doesn't want to head outside with her big basset hound body waddling behind her.
I'll keep this short ~ I have so much I could write, but even I am not wanting to talk about the things bearing down on me, so I will probably end this and make it one of the shorter blog postings I have done. I will say a prayer for our power to hold up and go on with the day. We are about to play "train" in the hallway ~ 4 chairs lined up, holding expired Wildcat Basketball tickets, and about to head to an imaginary WalMart in Switzerland, of course. Sierra is the conductor ~ how could you expect less?
Stay warm, y'all.
