November 24, 2004
snowing!!!!!
It is snowing here in Chicago.
Well, at least by the hospital it is. It is possible that there is little to no snow 10 miles east of here by the Lake, but I am hopeful that there will be snow. I do not find it prohibitive to drive in the white mush...and it gets me in the holiday spirit.
I am from Virginia (Everyone knows that by now). I think that because we seldom ever see snow in November or even December, that I bought into the postcard images even more so. I wanted it to be the truth...to be real. And here we have some snow, some real live winter weather. It is about time. I was beginning to wonder if the snow gods had forgotten us since I stopped sacrificing to them. Now that I am ordained I figured I should stop my pagan practices.
This is why I will put together an 8' fake pine tree in my livingroom and decorate it with glass baubles and little red men with beards, gnomes, elves, tinsel, sugarplumbs and lightbulbs with feet. Yeah. Good thing I gave up the paganism. Whew!
Ha!
Trish and I will be spending the holiday with Charlie and his new bride Christina. It should be a lot of fun. Hope, Andrew and Beth will be there as well as some others. It should be great fun. I am going to bake bread. Lordy, but how that makes me happy!
So, there will be two kinds. One will be your basic cranberry rolls. There are some pinenuts in them bad boys that kick 'em over the top of yeasty goodness. Then I will make some big ol' wheat breat, something large and ungainly so we can all tear hunks off of it. Yum.
Happy Holidays y'all! Enjoy your weather, whatever it may be.
Posted by tripp at November 24, 2004 04:31 PM