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November 13, 2004
Winter thoughts
Suddenly we're surrounded by white here, a late fall snow that got a little out of control. But a great playground for all the kids. We have a plastic sled that probably cost $4 and is just perfect for the rather gentle hill in our yard, which in turn is perfect for a 3-year-old. Lots of snow also gives us at least a temporary pardon from having to rake up tons of leaves, although I was rather looking forward to shredding them all up in our new shredder-chipper, a manly toy if there ever was one. And we actually had neighborhood kids taking leaves from our yard to build a bigger pile next door. Yesterday I was chatting with a woman from work who left our office when she and her husband moved to Virginia, and she said getting out of the cold weather was one of the reasons they moved. Some of the outsourcer workers we use spend a couple of months here on rotation, and coming from India it is not pleasant for those who end up here in the winter (maybe they got on the wrong side of their boss in Bangalore?). But we live here quite voluntarily, and I would really miss winter if I lived somewhere that didn't have it. And if you have to have winter, you need the full-blown New England kind. When we were in New Jersey the winter had far too many ice storms and too few gentle snowfalls. Our boy is entranced by the snow -- his second winter in New England. My wife worried recently that he would be disappointed if the snow this weekend was a dusting, not suitable for snowmen. Well, not to worry. And we all had a great snowball fight today. I need more snowball fights in my life ...Posted by markj at November 13, 2004 01:54 PM
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I hated the ice storms that we'd get in NJ. Colorado doesn's get many ice storms at all. I don't miss them (the storms) at all, but I do miss my family.
[PS I was signed in to Typekey and I got the "name and email are required" screen.]
Posted by: Lisa at November 21, 2004 02:40 PM
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