January 25, 2003
It's been cold here in Minnesota the last few days. Really cold, refreshingly cold. The kind of cold when I can stand at the bus stop feeling smugly, snugly warm in my thermal underwear and multiple layers, laughing at the wind as it fails to whistle through my windblocking polarfleece scarf. Hah!
And now finally, after the cold lets up a bit and it's climbed above zero, we're getting snow. I cannot tell you how good it feels to shovel again. Seriously. Mostly, though, I love the crunch under my feet. I love the quiet hush of snow falling at night. I love that maybe, finally, Kiara can go skiing.
It can't last. We've been teased like this before this winter, getting a similar dusting right before Christmas. It disappeared shortly after my sister and family left town, back to Indiana...where they promptly got more snow than we've seen all year.
Not that I'm bitter, de gozaimasu.
No, I have little hope that this snow's going to last. I'm gonna go walk the dog.
