It's been an interesting week for weather in Abilene. Icy cold. Then snowy with clear streets. And now snow all over the place.
Snow has some wonderful properties. Mainly, it covers ugly. It will also cover pretty stuff. But covering ugly is beneficial enough to more than make up for temporarily screening out the pretty.
According to the weather sites our weather matches what the rest of the nation is experiencing.
I regularly work with folks who live up near Canada. It is cold there. I am not a fan of cold. They can have the snow if they'll just keep the cold.
On a visit to the Rio Grande valley I encountered some folks who had moved down from Indiana (or maybe Illinois -- one of those Yankee states anyway). He told me that he was shoveling snow one day when he realized there were places that didn't require that. Shortly thereafter he moved to South Texas.
I regularly share that wisdom with my almost Canadian co-workers. This has not worked as a recruiting tool -- yet. I think I'll keep using it. If the cold doesn't let up soon those folks may become interested.
I realize that it gets cold around here;. My mom was raised out near Nugent. I know it can be cold there. One of my cousins tells about visiting there in the winter time. There was no central heat. No air conditioning. The did have a place for a fire in the bedroom and kept coffee cans of water there in case the sparks started a fire where they didn't want one. Said cousin remembers waking up in the morning and finding that the coffee can water had turned to ice. I don't remember that happening on any of my visits. But I do rmember how they would warm a brick or iron (not the electric kind) and then wrap it in newspaper or cloth and put it at the foot of the bed for some warmth. I'm grateful for central heat but there is something really satisfying in backing up to a fireplace or gas heater. About the closest we come is turning on the heater in the bathroom and closing the door. It warms up nicely.
Snow has some wonderful properties. Mainly, it covers ugly. It will also cover pretty stuff. But covering ugly is beneficial enough to more than make up for temporarily screening out the pretty.
According to the weather sites our weather matches what the rest of the nation is experiencing.
I regularly work with folks who live up near Canada. It is cold there. I am not a fan of cold. They can have the snow if they'll just keep the cold.
On a visit to the Rio Grande valley I encountered some folks who had moved down from Indiana (or maybe Illinois -- one of those Yankee states anyway). He told me that he was shoveling snow one day when he realized there were places that didn't require that. Shortly thereafter he moved to South Texas.
I regularly share that wisdom with my almost Canadian co-workers. This has not worked as a recruiting tool -- yet. I think I'll keep using it. If the cold doesn't let up soon those folks may become interested.
I realize that it gets cold around here;. My mom was raised out near Nugent. I know it can be cold there. One of my cousins tells about visiting there in the winter time. There was no central heat. No air conditioning. The did have a place for a fire in the bedroom and kept coffee cans of water there in case the sparks started a fire where they didn't want one. Said cousin remembers waking up in the morning and finding that the coffee can water had turned to ice. I don't remember that happening on any of my visits. But I do rmember how they would warm a brick or iron (not the electric kind) and then wrap it in newspaper or cloth and put it at the foot of the bed for some warmth. I'm grateful for central heat but there is something really satisfying in backing up to a fireplace or gas heater. About the closest we come is turning on the heater in the bathroom and closing the door. It warms up nicely.
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