December 7, 2013
We awoke to a scenic winter wonderland. Snow! Overnight snow fell softly and gently covering the area with a velvety blanket of white. It is unusual here in the foothills of California to get so much snow.
All was quiet at 8 AM when Andrew and I bundled up, strapped on snowshoes and headed down the frosty road.
We shuffled through the powdery virgin snow feeling jolly, so I began to belt out a chorus of “Jingle Bells”. My horrified son would not join in and begged me to stop.
When we returned home from our first-ever snowshoe trek up and down the neighborhood backroads, we let our two rambunctious dogs out to play.
They pranced through the snow topped yard chasing frozen snowballs that we threw to them.
We built a snowman in front of the house.
Once the snowman was finished, Pepper jumped on it trying to eat its carrot nose, knocking it to the ground. We reassembled the jersey-clad football fan as shimmering snowflakes fell from the sky.
Snow! How blessed we were to have received plenty of it!
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How very beautiful! I laughed about your son’s reaction to your Christmas singing. Hope you didn’t let his begging stop you.
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Kathy….I did. 😦
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Cool! I’m not a big fan of winter, but I do love freshly fallen snow.
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🙂 Thanks for reading. I enjoy winter especially when we get days like this.
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Janet… I love that your first reaction to such beauty was to get out and enjoy it. Nothing better than ‘snowshoe singing’. This whole post brought me JOY!
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Ellen, I’m so pleased to hear that this post brought you joy! Thank you for reading. 🙂
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Wow! You weren’t kidding when you said you had a lot of snow. It’s BEAUTIFUL! That’s got to be a record amount since you’ve lived there. Hopefully, it’ll stay around for a while so you can continue to enjoy it. Did Ginger eat the snowman’s nose, or just knock it down?
Dad
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Neither Ginger nor Pepper ate the carrot, although I gave them each little bits of it before sticking it in the snowman’s face.
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I LOVE WINTER, and I am so glad that you are able to enjoy YOUR SNOW, and give that big tall handsome young man of yours, a bit of advice…there will come a day when he will sing and embarrass HIS OWN CHILDREN 🙂
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I told him, Doris. He laughed. 🙂
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The snow is beautiful, and it;s so much fun (for both people and animals) to play in it.
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