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The snow is soft & thick over everything this morning, the garden is
lovely. No one's apt to come plow our steep hill, so I guess I'm snowed
in. Interesting when it snows & hardly any of it sticks to the Alaska
Cedar which has evolved slipper droopy fans of needles that keep the
weight off its limbs in the very snowy places it grows wild.

As I'm still recovering from the flu I don't get to play in it. Would like
to walk to Iris's cafe but it'd kill me just now. Weather report suggests
it will get warmer & rain this afternoon, so it won't be so perfectly
snowy long. I only hope it doesn't melt then freeze solid, as that could
damage some bulbs that had sprouted early, though the snow itself
shouldn't harm anything at all.

A mere six or eight inches snow shuts down the town, which is pretty
funny, cuz when I was in Madison two feet & a blizzard shut down nothing
in town.

-paghat the ratgirl


But it's a bit more hilly here than it is Madison, don't you think? And I
swear the snow is a different texture here than it is in the midwest or back
east - finer and more slippery. And, because snow is a much rarer commodity
here than it is those areas, there tends to be less of an infrastructure
around to deal with it - snowplows and sand trucks, etc. Although the DOT
(just up the street from me) is beginning to wisen up.

As far as I'm concerned, shutting down everything and taking a snow day
sounds like a pretty darn good idea. The lack of traffic on my normally busy
street is delightful. Wish it would happen more often.

The garden looks beautiful with its covering - all the harsh angles are soft
and billowy and the coral bark maple is glowing. In the extreme but very
dry cold of the last few days, everything just looked kind of bleak and grim
and unhappy.

A perfect day for making split pea soup with the remains of the New Year's
ham.

pam - gardengal