It’s beginning to look a lot like winter

Some say “Oh, the BEAUTIFUL SNOW.” I woke up this morning to the ground white with snow. I for one wanted to climb back into bed and cover my head, leave a call for my “answering service” to call me when spring arrives.

Now, I know I’m only one of those who might be many, but there are all those who woke up and yelled “SNOW! I love it!” The first thing they probably thought was to get dressed and go out to the garage or wherever you keep your snowmobile and start it up to listen to it roar and think “here we come.” There are those who love the snow, couldn’t care either way and just have to accept it, or folks like me who once loved the snow when I was a kid but outgrew it. It lost its fascination when you had to get out early morning to go to work and come home at night with the chore of cleaning off the car, scraping your windshield and back window before starting out, shoveling a path back to the house at night to get into it... let’s just say it lost all of its charm as you grew older and didn’t take up any winter sports. You feel like you have taken on 10 extra pounds by the time you got your parka on, boots, scarf, gloves and headgear. Even with the miracle fabrics that are so much lighter, just getting your togs on to go out makes you feel overloaded.

There were the days when a child that you couldn’t wait for snow. All the fun you could have in the activities in it. Back then before electronics we played for hours and couldn’t wait until weekends to spend the whole day outside playing. Today, you don’t find as many children out- side enjoying the many games that we as children did. When you travel along the roads, how many kids do you see out in their yards enjoying snow? Television, computers, cell phones with all of their accessories keep them inside. Perhaps if they ice skate, ski, sled or toboggan they are out, but as far as building a snow fort for a fight with a pile of snowballs you constructed the night before ready for the next day with a bunch of kids that have a fort to battle with, it’s a passe sport.

Remember the games we had? Fox in the Geese for snow, making snow angels, King on the Mountain, just plain fun hiding behind a tree waiting for that certain “someone” of the opposite sex walking by so you could either throw a snowball to get her attention or just let it slide past her to be able to engage in conversation. It had its advantages.

Snow allowed you to try to get better acquainted with that “someone” by offering to shovel her parents’ sidewalk or driveway back in the days before the plentiful snowplows attached to trucks and cars. Much as mowing the lawn did in the spring/summer season.

Today there are other new gimmicks for the winter season for both children and adults. Kids have sleds made in a way that run faster and better down the hills as well as self-propelled four wheelers for riding in the snow on wheels... adults have never improved snowmobiles with attachments that improve riding... also other vehicles that are new this year for them to ride that are now on display in all of the winter products stores.

For those who love the snow, they are happy with the season and take it all in their stride, they have great conversations with their coworkers, family and friends. While the other part of the coworkers’ conversations depends on their unhappiness but have no way to be able to travel to southern climates because of work and a paycheck.

We all can’t be happy all the time.

“Therewere the days when a child that you couldn’t wait for snow. All the fun you could have in the activities in it.”