One of our favorite lines from the live action film “Curious George” is when the man with the yellow hat is pursuing those that have taken George and sees that they are getting away on a ship. He is in his car and says, “I’ve watched a lot of action films so I know exactly what to do”. Afterwhich he barrels down the hill in his car attempting to jump (unsuccessfully) onto the moving ship.

Being from North Carolina since before my teenage years began, I know exactly what to do when we see snow starting to fall from the sky: Go to the grocery store and buy bread and milk (which I never really understood as almost all the snow in North Carolina is melted within a day except for the mountains) and wonder when they will be announcing the closing of schools and businesses. But here is not North Carolina. They tend to do things differently. When it snows, it means people wake up a little bit earlier so that they can shovel not only their driveway but also the sidewalk (so that it is cleared for those that need to walk by your house). Then life goes on as usual. Being the only male in our apartment building, I decided I would go out and do the shoveling. I’m still feeling it in my muscles and back now. Why did we decide to live in a place that’s on the corner (hence two sides have sidewalks) and that owns an extra lot beside us (so that one side has a really long sidewalk)? Oh well, I needed the excercise.

Now that we are on day 4 of these beautiful snowflakes drifting down from heaven, its getting old. The irony is that if we go one town south or two towns west, it looks like its barely snowed there. The hills in our area have seemed to just trap the snow clouds so that they are hovering over our town and those towns deep in the Black Forest. We’ve enjoyed the snow (and snowball fights that have erupted when you have a 6 yr old boy).

I put up a few photos from our place in the Photo Album