There is a possibility of a green Christmas this year. No, this is not a re-posting from my years down in Kansas, this is this year. 2011. In Minnesota. Is that even legal? Last year around this time, Minnesota got slammed with a blizzard that dropped somewhere between fourteen to twenty inches of snow. Enough snow to collapse the roof of the Metrodome. Where's it now? Why can't there be enough snow to collapse it one more time? That's all I would want.
One of the reasons we moved here was to have white winters and white Christmas days to wake up to. Nothing is more depressing than waking up on December 25th, a day full of happiness and excitement, and seeing dead grass and wet sidewalks from the night's rain. Those are the Christmas mornings you don't want to remember. You want it to be like your childhood memories. Looking out in the late morning and seeing the sun reflect off the fresh snow and it being almost too bright to look at. You want it to be so cold that when you open the door, your lungs tense up a little bit, your nose hurts just a little bit as it adjusts to the cold air. You don't want to look outside and see the remnants of the fall season. That time has come and gone, you want cold. You want white. You want what Christmas should look like. Last year, we left the blinds drawn and dealt with having no snow for what we thought was the last time.
We got just a burst of snow a few weeks ago, but that has since melted away during our recent 'heat wave' (it got up into the mid thirties). All right Mother Nature, I know you and I have had out differences over the years, but you have eleven days to get your shit in order and bring down the snow. I demand it!
Please.
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