Zookeeper's Lounge

so now there is snow outside. I am really excited about it and I hope it stays (until maybe March...). I am sitting in my room with a mug of hot chocolate and a warm blanket. It's a big change from the past week, when it was in the 60's. But I really love this weather. It makes me glad to be inside. Anybody else like the winter weather? Got snow or still waiting on it or not getting any all winter (as I would if I were in California)?

I'm enjoying the winter weather as well... the Orlando winter weather, not your type. I actually LOVE snow but my dislike for the ice outweighs my love of snow. Even though I don't like chocolate, I have fond memories of drinking hot chocolate with marshmallow during the cold, northern winters. I also have fond memories of sitting next to fires in fire places. Of course, that wouldn't work for you in the dorms. (At least, I hope not. )

Orlando has been having warmer and nicer weather than normal for this time of year. Tonight I went for ice cream at Dairy Queen and wore short sleeves. In all of the other years, it was always sweater wearing weather and cool winds the night before Thanksgiving. Right now, it is raining. But nothing major.

How is your break going?

Do me a favor and keep all that snow with you, SL. We missed out on that big storm trekking through Missouri by only 150 miles. I just hate cleaning it up, and driving in it when there's a lot of it. I also don't like when it sticks to my dog's paws, because he comes inside and whimpers and I have to blow dry his poor little feet. If we could just get snow once or twice a year I'd be happy.

Send some of that warm Florida weather up here, Jay. I wish I could go out in short sleeves now!!!

Snow! Finally. We've been wearing short sleeves; some of the students were still wearing shorts last week. We went out last night and during the two hours we were gone the temperature dropped 20 degrees if not more.

I woke up this morning to see snow on the roofs of the cars parked out front. It didn't stick and it won't be there long, but it did SNOW!

You can keep your mid-70s, balmy-breezed tropical weather. I prefer the challange of the changing seasons. No, I don't like ice, but I love the crisp cool mornings with a smell of freshness in the air. I love the scenic bareness of snow covered trees and bushes. I love coming in for the outdoors and slowly warming up with hot chocolate...RLK's mother calls it a hug from the inside.

It's all about attitude. I've been without heat, without electricity, without water. I came home from a funeral in Chicago several years ago to a street full of ice. I didn't know until we finally slid into the driveway that my water line had frozen and broke filling the street with water which froze.

During the blizzard of '78 we were marooned in my mother's house, me, my sister and our eight kids, for four days.

Nine years ago was the hottest summer I can remember. Tempteratures were in the high 90s and low 100s for months. Humidity! Everything was damp and sticky.

But we survived. Fall that year was wonderful. Cool breezes blowing across your face. The pungent smell of burning leaves.

Ah, weather! Ain't it great!

I personly love rain, not snow. But snow's fun to sled in! We have this super sled hill with like...5 diffrent ways to go down. And it's about....a 10/mile.
No snow here,yet And we're still in t-shirts (well I am.)
The people down here are so hardy! If this cold weather was in DC, everyone would be bundeled up tight. But here, on REALLY cold days, you can see people walking around in t-shirts(even sleevless) and shorts.
I've never had a snowy christmas, have any of you?

EDIT:
IT IS NOW SNOWING IN Asheville NC!!It started as looking like light rain, now it's ....not gonna stick.... phoohey

well here in belgium, atleast in my part, we don't see snow that often (coastal position) but when it snows here, usually we can have some snow fun without having all sorts of troubles with it, like traffic jams...

bluememaw wrote: hot chocolate...RLK's mother calls it a hug from the inside.

Ooooo... I LOVE that expression. It's now in my list of quips.

bluememaw wrote: hot chocolate...RLK's mother calls it a hug from the inside.

Funny, thats not the feeling I get from hot chocolate.. It's more of a burning sensation, then a weird tingely feelingin my ears.

well we got a bit (that really didnt stay) the night before thanksgiving but i was in northern indiana (at my grandma's (on my dad's side) for the family reunion dinner the next day) where they had almost an inch that acctually stayed on the ground but still really nothing here