Snow!

There's a sandwich board out in front of one of my regular coffee haunts, that reads: "Guess when it's going to snow and win a prize." I've been thinking about checking in with dates like: December 18th and December 25th---little would I have imagined we'd get our first snow this morning.

It was a typical PNW day. I woke up, the sun was shining, not a cloud in the sky. "I think I'll do a little raking in the back yard, later on," I thought to myself. So, I got dressed and went to church with the fam. When we went outside to get in the car, it was a little colder and there was some frost showing on the grass and on the neighbor's roof. Nothing unusual. We went to church down the street, and when we came outside after the service it was a little colder. We drove home and before we had started making lunch, it was snowing.

Such is life on the Minor Outlying Islands of the U.S., where our motto is: if you don't like the weather, just wait 15 minutes.

The snow stopped after a few hours and turned into rain. Presumably the air is colder now that the sun went down, and I am praying for ice. Ice? That's right. Snow won't keep the school buses from running but ice will---and since we only have a 2-day school week this week, maybe we'll get really lucky and go for a Thanksgiving Week hiatus.

I hear kids love snow days. I don't know much about that, having grown up in sunnier climes....but I sure know how school staff feels.(Insert evil laugh here.) Ice, Ice baby!