february fluff
just when i thought winter is giving way to spring, here comes tons of that white fluffy stuff.
there’s something simply magical when you sleep under a cloudless, starry night and wake up with the whole neighborhood blanketed in 10 centimenters of snow. hubby woke me up in the middle of the night (ok, it was probably 5 am, but hello? what kind of people wake up at such hours?!?) just to show me the wintry scene out the window. and i go, “huh? snow? ok.” and snuggle back under the covers. yeah, right. magical, my foot!
much later you get up, wrap your toddler in 5 kilos of clothing and plod your way through uncleared and unsalted pavements with a buggy. i reach the kinderkrippe huffing and puffing simply with the effort of walking through all that slush. it’s like pushing a wheelbarrow in the desert. or plowing a rice field, after drainage. not that i ever did any of those, though, but well, you get the drift…
oh well, temps are rising (to a high of 1 degree Celsius). but hopefully there’s still some snow left later. time for a family-snowball-fight!
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4 Responses to “february fluff”
February 8th, 2005 at
u know my mom and bro left Lauterbach this morning at 6:30 am and didn’t get here until 12:30. the usual 45 min drive turned out to be 6 hours! que horror! grabe nga daw sa autobahn eh. buti na lang stay lang ako sa bahay today
February 8th, 2005 at
My grandma was convinced I’ll get pneumonia because of the cold on my first winter here in the states that she bundled me up. Well, she bundled me up so well I had a hard time walking with all the layers of clothes and ended up with a heat rash!
It would be Spring before you know it. So, enjoy the snow (and the snow fight) while it last!
February 9th, 2005 at
rhada, that’s the problem when the bulk of snowfall happens during the night, they’re not quick enough to clear the roads. dito sa amin, they didn’t even bother to clear the roads, which were recently closed for construction! hanggang ngayon, grabe, ang dulas!
hilda, they say,dress up the little ones as you would yourself. pero since ginawin ako… hmm… can’t wait for spring…or, better, make it summer!
February 9th, 2005 at
winter seems to show-off…pero konti na lang yan! soon enough it will be sunnier days! (bah! the allergies naman for me)