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February 13, 2010 - Dixie, Granny Rox & Mildred during the last snow
here at the Dirt Road Farm!
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They may as well be.
Fewer things strike fear and stupidity into the hearts and neurotransmitters of Southerners than that dreaded winter forecast that screams out the "S-word."
Do I need to spell it out for you?
S-N-O-W.
There. I said it.
It's a weather expletive in my giant book of all words bad.
All Southern children love it because the very moment the word develops into a minuscule whisper, the schools will send the kids home early and just up and close for the remainder of the week.
And as if we need one more thing for the balance of our countrymen to poke fun of us over, this time seems to be no exception.
By 4 o'clock this afternoon, all the local schools in the 6 county area had announced school closures for the next 3 days. (Parents, I shall commence praying….)
My Facebook and Twitter feeds are shrieking the "S-word" - one after another.
Dare I imagine the milk and bread isles at our little IGA?
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| Photo By L. A. Jenkins This photo was taken at the Wal-Mart in Grovetown, Georgia at 7 p.m. I. Kid. You. Not. |
And if it really does snow followed by the usual community shut-down, we could easily experience a population explosion by October! (can you spell 'scandalous' ?)
Stranger things: it was 65 degrees on the front porch this morning while I drank my coffee, rocked in my rocking chair and blinked my eyes open while the sun warmed my face.
So in the next 24 hour window of time, I'm fully expected to believe that up to 4 inches of snow will arrive here at the Dirt Road Farm to greet me first thing in the morning…
That ain't even funny.
At. all.
Y'all know I don't do mornings.
And now I just broke my "ain't rule"…what's this coming to?
Sounds like I need to be more cautious when citing the Dirt Road Snow Globe for matters of geography.
While I shudder at the thought of snowfall, it's not that I am anti-snow fun. I watch the Winter X-Games and plan to watch the Winter Olympics. I'm a fan of Carrot Top, er wait, Shaun White! If I want to see and experience snow, I am fully capable of traveling to the snow regions UP in the NORTH - the Northern territory that is.
But this is the ever-loving Deep South, People. We simply don't. do. snow!
And besides, snow was not in Gone With the Wind.
Therefore, snow is a myth.
A diva named Scarlett said so.
HKJ
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