This may not be diary length, but we've all received those long, boring, cringe-inducing Holiday missives, tucked inside insipid Holiday cards and ... well frankly ... who wants a long Holiday Greeting?
It is quiet now in Dutchess County NY, but we are anticipating 3-5 inches of snow in the next twelve hours on top of the 4 inches we'd gotten on Friday.
I thought I'd share two bits of snow- and holiday-related whimsey to lighten our spirits ...
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The first, I'm blatantly stealing from gchaucer2's Thursday diary. ... Hey wait! He was stealing from the NOAA.gov website, so I'm not stealing IP of any kind. The following official NOAA weather report appeared on the NOAA.gov website on December 18:
FOR THE SNOW LOVERS OUT THERE...IT SHOULD BE A DRY SNOW...NEEDING
SOME PACKING DOWN BEFORE GOOD SLEDDING. IT PROBABLY WILL NOT BE
GOOD FOR BUILDING SNOW MEN...SNOW FORTS...OR MAKING SNOW
BALLS...BUT WILL LOOK NICE FALLING FROM THE SKY AND COLLECTING IN
THE TREES. WITH ALL THE SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF THE ATMOSPHERE
RELATED TO SNOWSTORMS AND CONSIDERING THE PROBLEMS...WATCHES...
WARNINGS AND INCONVENIENCES RELATED TO SNOW...ITS NICE TO REMEMBER
SNOW CAN JUST SIMPLY BE ENJOYED DEPENDING ON HOW ONE LOOKS AT IT.
The forecast must be from my neck of the woods because my husband, the snowball expert, concurred.
But what's a Holiday card without artwork or a photo. So here's a photo taken by my husband this week at LaGuardia Airport that is appropriately seasonal and made me think of all of my dear friends at dKos.
Happy Holidays! For Christmas ... our ususal security theater has turned a little seasonal and festive: