Sunday, January 30, 2011

Winter Wonderland?

The snow this winter has been insane.  We've had 6 snowstorms in 5 weeks!  They've been big snowstorms, too!  We have about 3 feet of snow on the ground right now; some places even have 5 feet.  It's crazy!  We're expected to get another foot this week!  Being that I just started my new job and, due to all the snow days we've already had, I haven't had much of a chance to really get going on it, I don't want a snow day, at least as a teacher.  We've had several already.  As a student on the other hand, bring it on!  Classes were cancelled at my grad school last Wednesday and I'm holding out hope that they'll be cancelled again this week.  (I know that I'm very blessed to be getting an education and to have support from my family for it, but grad school is NOT my favorite thing.  [May 2012 can't come quickly enough!])  The snow is actually getting kinda scary, though.  People's roofs are collapsing, the snow piles are so huge that it's incredibly difficult to see around a corner while driving, and a lot of it is starting to hang over the edge of roofs, looking as if it could fall on someone who walks by underneath.  We have an icicle hanging from the roof over our window and it's about 6 feet long.  Scary for someone walking down below!  I love the snow, though, other than the dangers it brings.  It's pretty and I think it's fun.  Lillie likes it, too, but we brought her outside to play during the first one and she ended up shivering and needing a warm bath to melt the clumps of snow off of her fur.  I think she looks like a harp seal normally, but especially in the snow! =)

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