Snow today. I am already tired of it.
The local television news stations try way too hard to seem upset when there is not snow on Christmas. The anchors really heckle the weather dorks, as if they have some control over it, as if this control would be worth employing in this way in this instance. It is fabricated nonsense nostalgia! They are probably ordered to act like Christmas snow is crucial to their happiness. But they smile so consistently that I question if they even know what happiness is. They could stand to not smile, for their own health.
These days many people have to work on christmas, more than before, and they have to drive all over the place. And people who aren’t at work still have societal stigma forcing them to make long distance visits. Less snow is less hassle and less danger. It is cold and miserable. It looks nice for a few minutes, then it turns brown, and LINGERS for weeks. We do not need snow, and there usually isn’t any, anyway! Consider that most of the American traditions originate in northern Europe, where snow is more common, assuming there ever is none. I am in Connecticut, the northeast, and we rarely get much snow by that point. But half the country never gets any. We need to re-evaluate this. Meanwhile we get more snow than we need in january and february, then more in march, and these days in April too. Our climate suits a white christmas less so than a “white presidents’ day,” and seems to be shifting toward a white mother’s day. My mother is as white as I am but not everyone’s is, so we should not discriminate.
These entries are still too elaborate for one a day. That is no good. I need to work on putting less work into them.
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indighost sez:
When I was in CT from 2011-2014 I had a few storms of 2-3 feet depth. (Lived in Simsbury CT which is towards the NW corner). Hiking up mountains in the snow is one of my favorite things.
What is your ideal weather anyhow?
Frimpinheap sez:
That is true, there is more snow in the northwest; the art exhibition was in Cheshire and my great aunt lives in Litchfield, where the weather is more harsh. But all the news broadcasts are out of New Haven so I do not know where they come from behaving like that.
I like rain and warm air. But I also like rain and moderately cold air. Even if the air is freezing I can take a certain amount, provided it is not pounding, obnoxious rain. Heavy wind I especially hate. At least if I have to be outside in it, or, like in this house, the windows rattle loudly in it.
Purplespace sez:
No snow yet and it can feel free not to because we got too much snow last year.