Enough already!

On an internet network, where Liz Moras, and Jesse Clifton participate, it's probably indelicate, nay foolish, to complain about winter, but I'm going to do it anyway.

Recently Jesse mentioned that it was -60° where he's located... (a couple of degrees north of Santa's Workshop apparently), and the sun rarely gets much higher than the horizon during the winter, and the frost on the road, forms into little snow-devils and lifts 18 wheel semis off the road, and deposits them high in the trees.... (hmmm, I may be slightly misremembering his blog... that didn't sound quite right... but oh, well... accuracy is highly over rated).

Here in greater Chicagoland, we have no such snow-devils, only Blago-Devils... but we had about 8 inches of snow yesterday... (I shoveled the walks 3 times during the day... and we're anticipating 3 more inches during the day. As of this morning, the weather man (sorry, it's too cold for our weather-bunny to appear on television anymore) said that we've reached 36.6 inches of snow this season... making it one of the worst winters in Chicago for snow accumulation in over 120 years! That's right, you read that correctly... 120 years!

I have a puppy who's only 10-12" tall, and the snow is taller than he is.... Yeah, I know.. the snow by Liz's house, reaches her eaves, and the snow near Jesse's house can dissolve rust. That's kind of the difference between Chicagoans and our brethren to the north. Here in Chicago we complain about our winters.... The roads are too slick, the potholes are deep enough to swallow a Buick, the snow is too deep, the temperature is too cold, the snow is too brown (yes, I said brown). Whine, whine, moan, moan, shivver.

In Minneapolis, they expound: "A 36" snow... hell, that' ain't snow... you shoulda been here the winter of '35, now that was snow... the capitol building was buried in snow up to the 7th floor, and people were getting around town by dog sled. It took 2 days to cross town, and you'd have to stop, and build an igloo out of the available snow, sometimes needing to eat one of the sled dogs over night. Now THAT was snow! And we liked it"!

I've had enough... anyone want me to ship them some of this freakin' snow? yeah... it's pretty ... but I've had enough.

No more snow! No more snow! No more snow! (Maybe I'll send a letter to Obama... maybe he can do something about this damn global cooling!)