OK.  I went back to Michigan this past weekend and can’t figure out why anyone would subject themselves to that.   It was freezing cold.  I was ready for the cold weather but not that ready.  It snowed all day Saturday.  Then came the wind, as if the snow wasn’t bad enough.  I had told my students I was going to Michigan and they were excited about the snow.  I told them it wasn’t all that.  I explained about the wet socks in stuffy boots and how their feet and boots would smell.  Oh but the best was the scraping of the car.  Ahhh the joy of having to scrape snow off the car and windshield.  We have an indoor garage so don’t have to worry too much about that but after my meeting on Saturday I walked out to my car to see snow covering my vehicle.  I had no snow scraper!  I just sat in the car waiting for the car to heat up so that I could put on the defroster to melt the snow and ice off.  Then came the task of using the “blue juice” to spray the windshield clean.  And inevitably the wipers dragged across the windshield prompting me to have to go out into the cold and beat the windshield wipers clear of ice.  AAAHHHH the snow.  Then there is all the salt.  There is salt on the sidewalks you have to get off your shoes or they will ruin and there is the salt on the road.  Now the salt on the road creates quite a nasty and dirty film on the windshield thus prompting you to use more “blue juice.”  Eventually you will run out of “blue juice” at the most inopportune time.  Oh and don’t forget all the salty snow and ice on your shoes.  You have to pound your feet together to get it all of so that your floor mat doesn’t get that nasty salt and water stain. 

I have to admit for the first few moments I was inside watching the snow fall I thought it was so pretty, then I had to go out in it.  Snow is nice to watch but not nice to live in.  When I left Sunday morning I was freezing my tush off but by noon I was driving home with my windows rolled down.  On my way home I drove past the front of our subdivision and saw the kids enjoying our winter fest.  The sub has snow made on one of the hills and the kids get to sled down it.  I just drove by laughing and thinking, that is the way I want to see snow…..70 degrees outside and sledding, how perfect.