first real snow

Wichita has encountered the first real snow of the year.  It isn't much, but it is better than looking at the dead grass.  We did get a little bit of a snowfall, which caused people to drive ten to fifteen miles an hour slower, but it melted away the next day because it was in the fifties.  

Hopefully it will stay cold enough.  Right now it is overcast and just snowing a little bit, flurries if you will.  When I talk to my parents, they are always telling me about the three and four and five inches of snow that fell just that day and how it is compounding on top of the feet of snow.  Having snow accumulate on the ground a month before christmas really helps to get me in the 'holiday spirit'.  Down here, not so much.  It sucks having just wind and no snow.  But now, if this stays on the ground, the snow is here and I will be more willing to listen to christmas music and finish up my shopping.  All because of snow.