The Snowy Day

Snowy days are fun.  22 degrees below zero is fun once in a while. Multiple days of below zero weather tend to be depressing and get just plain tiring after a while!  We have experienced the below zero weather on multiple occasions at this Grandparent's home, and it is now tiring! 

Thanks to Ezra Jack Keats, the author of The Snowy Day, a favorite book of our children, we have a wonderful picture of snow from a child's eye.  With mountains of snow to surf down, climb and tumble in, every child dreams of days of play in the white, powdery stuff.  Who doesn't want to climb the highest hill and coast down on a layer of snow?

Not meaning to burst your romantic view of snow, however...the stuff is COLD. After countless hours and years of clearing cars of snow, slipping on ice, shoveling walking paths, and tromping through feet of snow just to pick up some milk at Safeway, I must say...I still like snow. Yes, I am a romantic when it comes to cold weather.  The first snow is still exciting, I still like to take a walk in the new snow, and I like to sit and watch it snow (on the inside). 

For all of our friends who wonder at our sanity living in such a cold climate and location; you need to spend some time here with us.  Sure, you need to wear more clothes.  Sure our closet is full of coats.  Sure we have multiple pairs of boots.  And, we love it.

Cold, freezing cold, below zero cold weather?  Now that's another matter!  Give these Grandparents snow any day and see us enjoy it.  You might even catch us on a hike at Lolo Pass.  Perhaps you might see us on ice skates!  If you are fast enough, you might even get a picture of us sledding down one of our steep hills.  One Snowy Morning... 

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