Let It Snow

Does it snow where you live?

It doesn’t snow here in Southern California

This picture was taken in January 2021. Just look at that SoCal sky!

but when we lived in Northern California, we would get snow a few times a year.

The snow there was hardly ever light and fluffy. It usually was a wet, heavy kind of snow. The kind that snaps trees in half and brings down power lines.

Our house in Northern California

I loved sitting inside by the fire when it was snowing outside.

And white Christmases were the best —

We would be in the kitchen decorating Christmas cookies

while huge white flakes

floated down right outside the windows…

But having to go out in it —

Well, that was a different story!

Now, I’m not talking about getting in the car and driving somewhere —

that was easy.

We had a 4-wheel drive SUV and driving in the snow was kind of fun for me

(you just have to remember to turn into the skid!)

No, I’m talking about when you have to go out and do something IN it.

Like when your daughter is home from school because it’s a snow day

and she’s watching TV

and the satellite dish goes out because it’s caked with snow (for the third time…)

so you put on your wellies

and your gloves

and your heavy snow jacket

and your hat

and you tromp out in it (for the third time…)

and this time it’s just a little higher than the top of your boots

and you get a boot full of icy cold, wet snow.

And now your feet are soaking wet

but you stay the course

‘cause that dish isn’t gonna clear itself.

So you grab the garden hose

and stretch your arm out toward the sky

and aim at the dish

(which, by the way, is two stories up on the top of the roof)

and pull the trigger…

And why is it that those nozzles always leak

and more water runs down your arm and into your jacket

than actually goes up and hits the dish???

But again, you keep at it

‘cause Sister wants to watch Gilmore Girls.

So you keep aiming toward the dish in the sky

as more water gushes down your arm

until you just can’t take any more icy cold water running down inside your Long Janes

and you’re so wet

and so cold

and so frustrated

that you throw the hose down

and the nozzle slams down through a foot of snow

and lands perfectly on the trigger on the driveway below

and shoots a stream of icy cold water

right smack in your face!

I hear Northern California had the worst snowstorm on record a couple of weeks ago.

Gosh, I miss those days…