Popular Post JohnSwenson Posted December 25, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted December 25, 2017 Today was a special Christmas for me, it was my very first white Christmas. Living in the SF bay area in California all my life I've never had snowfall where I lived (we'd go to the mountains, but that's different). This summer we moved up to Washington state, the home of rain. And occasionally snow. Yesterday afternoon as we were coming home from church I started seeing this horizontally falling stuff coming out of the sky, my wife and I both shouted at the same time "SNOW!" It kept on coming, at home it started falling harder and kept on coming. We were not expecting it since the thermometer said it was 34F. But slowly it started staying on the ground, it started staying on the trees then the sidewalks. It took a long time to stay on the concrete patio but it finally did. We have a big picture window in our dining room overlooking the backyard, I pulled up a chair and just watched the snow for hours. I went outside and just stood in the falling snow, letting it fall all over me until my wife called me back in. (she grew up in New York and Pennsylvania, this was old hat to her). Our little white chihuahua had never seen snow, he went out, stepped into the snow a little, and came dashing back in, he didn't want any part of that strange cold stuff. It stopped falling in the evening but by then it was just below freezing so it stayed around all night. In the morning I took the dog for a walk like I always do, he didn't seem to mind it if I was with him. When we got back inside, he dashed through his doggie door and spent the next 10 minutes playing in the snow, running around and rolling in it, he decided he really likes it. Later in the morning the temperature went up to 35F and the snow started melting, but it just started snowing again, it's coming down like crazy right now and starting to cover things again. I'm pretty excited, my first White Christmas. John S. YashN, Ajax, One and a half and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment
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