Supposedly it snowed this morning. But I can’t see anything from where I’m sitting. Is it a case of the emperor’s new clothes? Yeah, I’ve seen the pictures of Clarksville’s snowfall. Looks white. But seemlingly whenever Bill Hall mentions flurries, everyone runs to Kroger and buys a dozen gallons of milk. People, calm down!
I remember one time it snowed early on a Sunday morning. The local TV stations were barraged with calls from every little rural church out there hoping to get their announcement out that their services had been cancelled or postponed. Those Snow Bird reports went on for forever. So now the TV stations just say call your pastor/minister and find out if your services will happen. They don’t accept announcements about church closings anymore. Probably a good idea.
My aunt lives at the bottom of a hill on a Cul-De-Sac just a few blocks from my house. When I was in elementary schoo, every time it would snow significantly, I’d drag my sled through yards in order to get to the hill. I can remember sledding down that hill numerous times….trying to get out of the way when my cousin would yell “car.” Sometimes while sledding I’d loose control of the sled and go off into the ditch into a bunch of bushes. I’d get scraped up, but tried to get back up and go sledding again. We used real sleds. None of this plastic-garbage-lid-looking junk. A real sled with bades.
Sometimes we’d get a really big snow and we’d be able to sled 3 sometims 4 days at a time. But those days are long gone. I haven’t seen a good snow in a while.