Amanda the Great by Amanda El-Dweek for November 15, 2024

It is hard to get excited about it here, because we have way too many fair weather state people moving up here thinking they know how to drive in the stuff. Plus here snow typically is preceded by freezing rain, so under that fluffy stuff is pure ice.

Amanda, don’t EVER expect me to get excited about the first snowfall. If Arizona was in Canada, I’d live there.

At a particular time, once every twelve to fifteen years, we get snow, enough to play with for 15 minutes. It is definitely celebrated.

We are finally getting temperatures dropping low enough in the next few weeks that snow will actually be possible, assuming there is any moisture that is. Really depressing to live in the northern Midwest US and hardly even have snow at Christmas anymore. Besides the beauty and winter sports, a decent snow cover means needed water for spring growing season. And this cartoon is actually dated several years ago which just shows how fast our weather patterns are changing. Brown, dry Christmas is depressing.

I’ve never understood the appeal of snow – not only can you be cold, you can be cold and wet at the same time.

Oh snow!!! Love it!! And yes, I agree! Look at all the people who are thrilled at flowers popping up in the spring. Geez people, it happens every spring (unless the rabbits and/or deer eat them ) :).

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything” – Will Rogers, et al.

I love Snow! Especially when he’s teaching his kittens, a life lesson…oh wait, you mean snow falling from the sky, snow! I love that, too!

I do! At least through the holidays. After that, snow is only exciting if it’s enough to close the office. And while I love a white Christmas, I don’t want a blizzard so intense that we can’t even go to Mass like in 2022. So no holiday BLIZZARDS. A snowstorm is fine.

When I was a cross country truck driver, I saw snow falling in Wyoming on the fourth of July.

Snow is wonderful in my opinion – when seen through double-pane glass. :)

My wife would get excited about the rare snowfall above Santa Barbara and insist we go check it out. It got to where I would first show her photos of the last expedition, when she was cold, wet and miserable, to be sure it was something she really wanted to do.

“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.” ― Hans Christian Andersen

The snow waited ‘till November? Wow! That’s a lot later than when I was stationed at Minot back in the ’70s. Soft living, Amanda, Sooofffftt living!

As newlyweds I took my bride for a walk in her new Eddie Bauer goose-down snowsuit one snowy midnight and we made snow angels in a car dealership lot. Well worth it!

I’ll be excited for you! (Summertime might have finally packed up for the season here.)

Tsk! Tsk! Amanda, Dan is NOT stupid. (And I know that you know that he’s not really.) He’s simply more realistic than you, the artistic romantic. :)