Letters of Intent

Houston, we have had a problem.

I know it is Sunday, not Friday, when Julie hosts Letters of Intent, but better late than pregnant.... er, I mean never, right? (Quoting some more Blanche Devereaux there!) At least this time I had a real reason for being late and missing the actual day of Intent.

This happened the other night:

We woke up to this:

And had no Internet, phone, or television (oh my!) until today at about noon. But we found work for Poppy anyway!

Since I wasn't allowed to go outside (like I do EVERY YEAR when/if we get a big snow) and take "real" pictures, your viewing pleasures are limited to the view from my front window.

Buddy out for a run. He LOVES the snow.

Poppy's finished up front.... now some shoveling out back to do.

Dutchess taking it all in.

Dylan's first peek of the snow! LOVE that bed head hair do!

Since Mr. Boy Boy is sick (ear infections and runny nose and coughing), this is the only view he has had of the snow this year also. (I said we are lucky that he doesn't remember last year or know what fun he is missing out on or we would really be in for some whining and begging.)

So, on to my Letter of Intent.

Dear Mother Nature of Kentucky/West Virginia,

Why are we all or nothing? I mean, can't we just get a dusting? Does it have to be over half a foot in one night, postponing our Christmas singing, causing wrecks, electricity to be off, etc, and so on.

Don't get me wrong, I like snow. Just not a dump truck full at a time. I know, I know. Some areas stay like this for months. And that is FINE. They get used to it. They know how to drive in it for real, not just think they know how to drive in it. Their electric poles, etc, have been beefed up (at least a little) so that they can handle the "real deal" all the time. (or they know how to use their generators, not breaking out the instruction manual every time, or blow it up like my Uncle Bill did just the other day.) (They are fine, by the way. Stuff like that SO runs in my family!) Their lives do not stop simply because 8 inches of snow fell upon the earth.

Mother Nature, I LOVE snow, it is beautiful, but I would rather have a steady amount on regulated dates and no surprises in the mornings. I would like to be able to function in "Snow Mode." For real. And the stores would love to NOT have the rush on toilet paper and milk. Just saying.

So, I guess I will continue to get hit or miss weather as long as I reside in my old Kentucky home, and I don't see moving to Alaska anywhere in my near future, so I shall work on getting used to the all or nothing weather. (Even in spring. I mean, come on! Drought to floods. Sheesh.)

In closing, I guess I should just say thanks for gracing our presence with some snow this winter, but it BETTER not mess up Aunt Willie & Tonette's visit this week OR cause a permanent cancelling of our Christmas singing (Crum is out of electric for about a week, just wait til my True Story Tuesday.) or my counseling or last minute Christmas dinner shopping..... you get my drift... I just love to whine!

With Love,

A gal who thought she had all her pre-Christmas stuff done.