NOW PLAYING: Snow Problem, OK?

4 January, 2002
Sixteen inches of snow is a fine way to begin a new year, don't you think? Almost exactly two years ago the same thing happened here. My folks in Minnesota only have four inches o' the white stuff on the ground right now. Very odd, if you ask me.

Wifey measures the snow depth at 8 inches early on Jan. 3. It kept snowing, and by Thursday morning that had doubled to 16 inches.

We've been at home for the past couple days, though if we'd wanted to take the Explorer and go play "Highway Hockey" with all the fools on the road we could have done so. Better to stay put and, since we have power and phone available, simply work from home. It's certainly very pretty out, made all the more so by the knowledge that it will be near 50 degrees this weekend and all the snow will soon melt away — we won't have to deal with it for the next three months like Mom & Dad & Karen do...

Me and Annie in the snow. The WeePup is looking for something to go bounding through the snowdrifts after, namely Jessie.

The dogs love the stuff. Jessie makes "snowpup angels" by rolling around and Annie gets all hyper and runs around through the drifts. Of course, Annie pretty much runs around any time she gets outside; she just seems to enjoy doing so even more in the snow.

The Jessie-Pup makes a snow-angel-dog-thing. Of course, she pays the price for all that rolling... she's one stiff and slow-moving old dog later in the evening.

The chickens hate it, though — they refuse to set foot out of the coop into their snow-covered run. I guess they don't like cold, wet feet (and I can't say I blame them for that). Tomorrow I suppose I'll have to go shovel some of the snow out of there so they can hop around. They're probably getting "coop fever" or something from, er, being "cooped up" for two days...

The Peepers don't enjoy the cold white stuff one little bit. I can't tell if they're afraid of it (they are chickens, after all...) or if they just don't like getting cold, wet feet.

Anyway, snow in North Carolina is a novelty — especially in these amounts — and even with the people jamming the stores to buy milk and bread like it's the end of the world, the vehicular chaos on the roads and the "all snow, all the time" broadcasting on the local TV stations, it can be nice to have around. For a little while, at least.

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