It’s snowing today and as I was driving Spencer to seminary this morning I thought, “snow is so magical” – which got me thinking. What is it about snow that seems so magical to me? After all, it’s frozen water, and I don’t think rain is magical at all! I thought back to when I was a kid, growing up in mostly warm climates (Hawaii, Texas, California). I remember how exciting it was when we would visit my grandparents in Utah and there would be SNOW! When our family moved to Maine, snow was the most exciting thing about that first winter. It was cold, to be sure, but there was oodles of the white stuff. We made forts and tunnels and had snowball fights and went sledding and skiing. It was everything fun about winter. Some part of me is still responding to snow in that same child-like way. ...
Here’s what we woke up to this morning… I guess winter is making an early appearance. Good thing I cleaned out half the garage – no scraping snow & ice off my car now!! Read More →
Despite the prodigious amounts of snow that fell last week, the snow was pretty much gone by Saturday (gotta love Denver weather!) and now we’re having another snowy day (though the forecast is for a measly 2-6 inches). I personally am glad to have the snow – I’ve missed it this winter – but it is a little odd in April. On a completely different note, Tom and I decided we had waited long enough to tile the garden window in our kitchen. So Tom pulled out the belt sander and evened out the “floor” while I broke up left over tile from previous projects. Along the way we figured out how to remove the windows from their tracks (so we can paint them). Then we laid out a wavy line of tumbled glass and flat glass “beads” (the kind you use in vases – I think). Then we laid out the mud...