We got some more snow Thursday and Friday and then the Big Chill came barreling down on us. Windchills in the minus zero range. This morning’s temperature was below zero, but it didn’t feel all that bad when I went out with the dogs. I didn’t stay all that long and by our afternoon walk, it was a balmy 25 degrees with no wind. The snow underfoot was still powdery and when we were walking in between some trees silvery bits of snow drifted down here and there. Very pretty.
I know you people in the north have had a lot more snow with hard to believe wind chill numbers. And some of you guys in the south are complaining about temperatures in the 20s and 30s. It’s all perspective and what is normal for your area. We ended up with about three inches of snow that you northerners would think was naught but a pesky skiff of snow.
We have had deeper snows with drifts. The time I’m thinking about we had maybe eighteen or twenty inches of snow. It was cold and windy which made for deep drifts. Our lane had drifts several feet high over it for weeks. The snow came in January and it was March before a vehicle made it up our lane. My husband pulled the car out through the field with a tractor to the main road so he could go to work. We either walked to the road or rode the tractor down if we had to go anywhere. The kids got a school vacation for a month. That year we took turns reading The Lord of the Rings books. What’s better to keep cabin fever at bay than reading?
At that time we were the only people living back our little lane. Now there are several houses back here and one of the high banks on the side of the lane where the snow snuggled down in the shade of trees along the way and refused to melt has been bulldozed away. That keeps snow from building up in solid drifts there now the way it did then. That was a winter to remember. We had three of those type winters in a row, but the last few years we haven’t been getting much snow at all.
Snowy days make good days to write. Or they should. But this month hasn’t been a good writing time for me. I typed words, but I think maybe all of them may give my delete key exercise. Nothing seems to be going the way it should as I try to get going on my new story. I don’t usually get in the writing doldrums until I have more words piled up. And then I see on Facebook where this or that writer friend has written several thousand words in one day. Maybe before breakfast!
To work through this I just have to keep on keeping on. Keep writing. Keep deleting what doesn’t work and keep writing some more. I’m hoping I’ll start coming up with words and some new exciting scenes that before you know it, I’ll be the writer on Facebook saying how many words I got before breakfast. Well, probably not, but at least I’ll be getting some words down and the story told. I love to tell stories, but sometimes I have to dig for the right words to do that.
Hope you have a wonderful week. That you’re somewhere warm and if you have snow, you’re enjoying the way it makes everything look so fresh and beautiful. I put this quote by that prolific Anonymous in the Sunday bulletin last week. “Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.” Wishing you much kindness. Thanks for reading.
Do you have beautifying snow you can enjoy?
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No snow for us so far, only pictures from winters passed.
No snow for all of here in the lowcountry of South Carolina but the temperatures have been quite cold for us. We lived in Great Lakes, IL in the early eighties and it snowed from the end of October all the way through May one year. I enjoyed the snow when it fell and made the air so crisp and clean but when it melted that was not so enjoyable. When we see snow down this way it is such an event and I am always happy to see the kids enjoy it although it never lasts more than a day or two. Don’t worry about your writing as the words will come and the book will be just as wonderful as all of your others.
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How nice of you to say that, Becky, about the words coming. I’ve written a lot of books and so far, those words have always come. With you and others sending good vibes I hope it will be the same again this time.
You know what snow is from living in Great Lakes, IL. We dabble in snow here in Kentucky and down in SC they rejoice in a day of snow. 🙂
Hi Lisa,
We have mainly grass showing with some snow. I guess the snow has gone all around us! Sigh…. But we do have the sub zero’!!! So sad! If we’re going to have subzero weather can’t we then have buckets of snow!?! But then I wouldn’t try to tell The Lord what I think should be happening! So we seek His face and wait to see what happens.
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My mom used to say if people could order the weather, we’d all be in a terrible shape, Shari. So it’s good to leave that with the Lord.
Still, it does seem that snow should go with thos super cold temperatures. That was why our snow has stuck around so long. It will be gone tomorrow. Supposed to rain here.
We here in the Twin Cities have hardly any snow at all!!! In fact we have whole areas that are pretty much like grass brown grass ‼️😭 I’m one of the odd ducks that actually like snow.
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Maybe snow will be on your way soon. The winter is far from over. My daughter in law is always wanting it to snow. She’s a snow lover like you.
We have snow…and cold, it is pretty,but I am looking forward to the temperature being in the 40’s tomorrow.
I hope you get past the writing doldrums and start pecking away on the keyboard soon.Maybe warmer weather will help!
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I like the warmer temperatures, but I’m not as happy about the mud that’s going to some along with all the rain this week. Frankie and Marley sometimes seem to go out of their way to step in the muddiest places.
I’m pecking on that keyboard. Whether the right words spill out remains to be seen, but thanks for your good thoughts, Lisa.