Frosty the FirstOver the weekend my sister-in-law told me about an old Farmer's Almanac tradition: the date of the first snowfall is also the number of snowfalls you will have during the season. The Cabin has a definite Farmer's Almanac-esque quality. Like this snowfall prognostication, what the Cabin lacks in sophistication it makes up for in folksiness.
The first snowfall here was on November 30th: barely a skiff of the white stuff, but snow nonetheless. We were in Peoria, Illinois the morning of 11-30, and saw the first snowfall there as well. Unprepared as we were for the weather, I sent the girls out in their pajama bottoms with gallon-size Ziploc bags over their tennis shoes to build Frosty the First.
Snow is falling again this morning, and I say "Let it snow!". . . two down, twenty-eight to go?
ERB
3 comments:
What a wonderul snowman!
oh goodness, I am not sure I would make it through 28 more days. I really do love the snow and don't mind the cold, it is the having to drive to work in it part that I don't like very much.
Ah...snow days! What every student (and teacher--secretly) wishes for!
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