I love South Carolina. Right now it's 50 degrees and cloudy. I just got an e-mail, a text-alert on my cell and an automated voice-call on the land line: School is canceled tomorrow because it might snow.
I do hope that it does. I could use some snow, so long as it doesn't hang around. Snow is best for one day or two. Not the whole winter.
Snow is a reason for a holiday. Outside will smell wonderful -- the air heavy with pine because our poor trees weren't made for snow. The snow will collect on the needles and in the branches and be too heavy for the tree. Snap! Down they'll fall. Which is all fine provided they don't fall on your power lines because then, in your all-electric, not-too-warm-from-the-heat-pump house, you'll be cold and in the dark. And if you live in the country and are on a well, you'll also be thirsty and stinky because your well won't work without electricity and you won't have water.
But sometimes it snows and the power doesn't go out. That, my friends, is a real holiday. A reason to cancel school, stay home with your family, and drink hot chocolate and marvel at the stuff floating down from the sky. Snow. That rarest of weathers.
Snow... with temperatures of up to 110 plus around here lately, I'd love a day of snow.
Not interested in a 'house swap' holiday are you?
Posted by: Bear | January 19, 2009 at 07:57 PM
did it snow?
Posted by: lori | January 20, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Yes, it snowed but nothing stuck. Very pretty, like living in a snow globe, but too wet and warm for the snow to stay. Tonight is supposed to be bitterly cold (20) so I guess the wet stuff will turn to slick stuff. Wonder if we'll have another school cancellation?
Lily and I went out and got our hair cut and some other errands. And now we're going to take Tiger to the vet. He looks like he's 200. I suspect his insulin needs adjusting and he might have an infection somewhere. Poor fellow.
Hope you are warm!
Posted by: lifepundit | January 20, 2009 at 02:48 PM
50 is cold?
I'm up in Ontario, Canada and outside there is about 3 feet of the white stuff on my front lawn! If temperatures were to get close to 50 we'd be breaking out our spring jackets :)
Glad you had a chance to get out and about though! Snow days are always fun!
Posted by: Katie in Stratford, ON | January 20, 2009 at 03:07 PM
Oh you do not jest about S. Carolina and school cancellations for snow. When I lived there, fresh from Wisconsin, I couldn't BELIEVE how easily they canceled school - - - one flake, that was all she wrote.
And what about bread and milk - - - those FLY off the shelf as if by magic at the mere mention of the possibility of snow.
It is truly incredible!
Posted by: Indiana Keetha | January 25, 2009 at 07:30 AM
This is really funny stuff! OMG. Love the science project one too. I never noticed this before. You need a link from smellshorsey with an arrow that says "PSSST! the really funny stuff is over here-->"
Posted by: ell | January 27, 2009 at 08:12 PM