Ladies and gentlemen, we have snow.
It started snowing…oh, about 40 minutes ago. It wasn’t accumulating. I walked to the post office, walked to the grocery store…and by the time I got done in there, the snow was actually not melting the instant it hit the ground. Enough had accumulated to start a blanket of white. I have snapped photos, shown the cats, and caught some on my tongue. And giggled like a fruitbat.
I know that, eventually, I will become inured and will react properly to snowfall: I will be mildly annoyed, worried about snow closures on the many roads (I live at the bottom of a hill, so any trips I need to make headed west will have to be on foot - no driving on those hills), and will be grousing. Now, though, I’m far too caught up in the glee and gigglefits. I’m surely pissing off the natives something terrible.
A Sudanese child would probably react like this to regular spring rain in Northern California, and everyone would either 1) think the child was deficient; 2) start placing bets on when the child would do something very silly like wander into puddles and stand there; or c) shake their heads and crash into a telephone pole (because they weren’t paying attention to the road).
And now, I’m off to go build a demented gingerbread house. Wish me luck!!
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