I got a snow day! I actually did, since it's been snowing then sleeting then raining then snowing and sleeting some more since yesterday morning resulting in a very fine sheet of ice coated in a thin, powdery layer of snow all over the ground today... very nice sledding weather! The precipitation ceased so we - my father, my sisters, and I - dug out the old red sled ("red" as in the color it was fifteen or twenty years ago when it was purchased) and had some fun in the back yard and the cornsicle field beyond. Being an old and abused thing, the sled eventually broke on us... so we compromised with a bin lid (Molly's contribution) and a piece of old pool siding ("It's good for everything!") with holes put in it and ropes tied through (contrived by my father). We broke the former, and the latter almost broke us (once I was sure I was going to hit the telephone pole and gave myself a cramp trying desperately to stop; and just about every time the ride ended by the rider being dumped onto patches of grassicles). We tried it one at a time, two at a time, four at a time; on our bums, on our knees; once Mo and I went back-to back with our arms linked and she steered us so
I was face-first when we reached the treeline... lol. Finally, when she went to throw away the shattered bin lid, Mo brought back the coordinating bin (which was cracked down the front)... proceeded to kick out the front, and made it about half-way down the hill despite the resistance of that bevelled bin-bottom. Finally we came inside and got good and toasty with hot chocolate and laptops. I noted to Molly, "My cheeks are rosy! I can feel it. It's like a bunch of fairies are pinching me."
...To which she replied, "You need a slam-bug-whopper."*
*"slam-bug-whopper" was my brother's term for a fly-swatter when he was little.
p.s. King Caspian (Samuel West) from the old Narnia VotDT was in this movie - w00t.
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@Promise_Sing - I'm cool with more snow as long as the university acknowledges the pertaining limitations and doesn't expect commuters to make it in to classes.
We actually haven't had that much snow here in southern Illinois... our weather is on-and-off crazy, 70's last week and 20's this week... That's just life here, it doesn't surprise me anymore.