Who is Dreaming on a White Christmas? I'd Like Snow for my Birthday.....Either Way Loving Frosty Mornings in Raleigh. Cool Air! Fresh Air. A House Decorated and Trying to Ignore Models that Promise Possibilities ...then.......Yank them Away!
Going to be honest. I'm not promising anyone anything for the holidays.
Elevation matters....but you still need moisture to get snow!
Cold in place helps, but you still need moisture to get snow!
Much depends on the atmospheric flow to get snow!
I'm laying low these days on X as I scroll along feeling like the Grinch stole Christmas has taken over X and Instagram and fill in your favorite social media because everyone is kvetchy and no that is not a mixed metaphor! I can definitely blame this on Hollywood. All those movies and commercials that end with snow falling silently into the silent night and with children smiling and lovers kissing. Closer we get to December 25th and people are feeling cheated because they have been promised happy endings and snow for the holidays.
If you are not a snow lover then go South to the Florida Keys where everything is lit up with little Christmas lights and tinsel on the palm trees and tropical drinks to toast you're far away from roasting chesnuts on an open fire.
This was last year in Fenton, NC (Cary)
Chanukah, a holiday I do celebrate is in the Winter usually around the Winter Solstice and it's very magical outside at night with a crowd around an Ice Menorah that's singing with the glow of the candles and it feels like a Hollywood movie as we connect seasons to the holidays. I have a friend or two from Austrailia and they have to suffer through all the "winter nonsense" as Christmas and Chanukah are Summer holidays in the land down under where they grew up. I know how they feel.........I grew up in Miami. Tinsel and a can of spray snow was the closest I got to a "White Christmas" and being the only Jewish kid on the block everyone would come over and ask if I wanted to put "tinsel" on their tree or spray the fake snow on it. And, yes I did. I'm really good at throwing tinsel softly on the tree. At the library where I worked I was in charge of helping decorate and as I'm Southern... we just love to decorate!
I'm not really sure what you love the most as you read this long rant on the things I love vs the ranting online about "not getting snow" "getting snow" or "why is it so warm in the winter" vs people a few states over whining about "why is it so cold this year" and on and on it goes.
Have we become a nation of whiners I wonder?
I blame this also on THE Models and I do not mean the Victoria's Secrets.
The models are the updated version of the carrot and the stick. In order to get us to come back every six hours or so this must have been programmed into them by some evil programmer who was told to do anything to get them to come back in six hours.
In one week I was promised no snow and I was promised warm weather and then I was promised an Ice Storm and now it's promising me January will be really white, wintry and cold. The same models that promise us a Category 5 Hurricane hitting New Orleans on the 10th day are now up to the same game except they are offering the weather people snow on the 10th day.
Do not fall for it!
It'll snow when it snows.
If you can't get snow go to Montana or Wyoming in January and February and wait until it snows. If you can't afford a ticket then turn off all the lights at night, turn on videos of snow falling on YouTube or whatever and pretend it's real. Hey I did that for years....................growing up in Miami.
Meanwhile I'm enjoying the cool air, the cold air and the scenic room heater that looks like a mini fireplace you can get at Target and it throws colorful, fake flames against the fake wooden bricks in the background and warm air that doesn't make my head feel funny the way it does when the actual reverse cycle AC/Heater blows heat. Sorry not complaining, just saying love the little fake fireplace.
I'm enjoying what showed up this morning and that was frost !! Also something I didn't see much in Miami growing up.
Love Winter. I love the cold fresh air that feels light, crispy and doesn't weigh you down like 90 degrees in the Summer does. Love whatever I can get and sometimes that's frost and this morning there was frost on the rooftops and on the cars and it sparkled like diamonds in the sunshine!
I'm a Capricorn. For years I've been cheated out of presents because "here's a really nice gift for your birthday and Chanukah!" which goes over the way no snow falling from the sky after being promised by the Models continously until it evaporates into reality goes .... I have a friend at the Temple who was raised Catholic and born in Mid December and apparentlty she got the same crappy line except "I got you a really nice gift because it's almost Christmas and your birthday" and she ranted longer than me and to be fair she rarely got a birthday party because there were so many parties going on who would come? Not easy being a Capricorn, you wonder why they always seem to be depressed if they aren't making jokes.
posted by BobbiStorm @ 6:20 AM
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