02.01.2008 7:15 am
Do you wish for more snow, or less?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Schools are closed, people are yanking sleds out of garages and basements and some St. Louisans are enjoying the 8 inches or so of snow that fell across our area.
I’m one of the people who love snow — the more, the better. We head west every year to ski and come back home bemoaning our wimpy winters.
Readers send in their snow photos — you can see them here — and I wish we could see them more often.
What about you? Do you relish the snow, both as a beauty and a bother? Or do you long for the season of flip-flops?
Bring on the snow. I wish we would get more of it.
To all those who don’t like snow. Fly south.
the amount of snow I enjoy essentially is based on the age of my kids. As they get older and more rambunctous, I enjoy more snow. Even though I could probably do without any, the fact that I have a 5 and 7 year old warrants the need for some.
You’re so right, Mandy! My feelings are hurt! I just may be forced to leave the office and (quickly) grab a cup of Frappuccino Blended Creme at the nearest Starbucks! (I do hope the fallen snow doesn’t delay me!) Don’t you know that, among us Yuppies, Starbucks’ blended cremes are a pervasive motivator for caution in our behavior and interrraction with others–kinda limits any chance of abdicating power and control over my own life.
I’d say those older folks do tend to get snarky, don’t they?
Bring on the flip flops and shorts and 90 degrees, let’s go to the pool.
I hate winter and snow and ice and the flu and everything else that goes along with it.
Love the snow, wish we had more of it. It’s not hard to drive in if you have an ounce of skill. I’m bummed it will melt off totally by Sunday with the high temps coming. Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!
I used to live in St. Louis, but have lived in southwest Florida for the past four years. Talk about boring. Yes, sun almost all the time, but the same thing every day just gets boring. It gets to the point where you just take it for granted. Too much of anything is not good - it’s like that movie Ground Hog Day. Everyday is the same, and time passes and you don’t even realize it. Variety is the spice of life. Enjoy your change of seasons and even the snow. Lovely Florida, the land of the newlyweds and nearly deads. I envy you and your quiet blanket of snow.
look out the windows in the morning and see Deer peacefully grazing on my lawn, my vegetable garden growing, and can walk down to the dock and go fishing or boating, or both.
Walking into my home is a little like walking into a tropical jungle. The Ti plants breathe in carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. My cats, LOI, and I all like to have oxygen to breathe in. The plants love the carbon dioxide that we animals breathe out.
You ask why I have 250 pounds of salt? I put out a 50 pound block behind my house for the deer to lick. They go through 2 blocks per year now. They are happy, I am happy most of the time. They all know me. I get mad when I am driving down the gravel road and one stands on it and refuses to move. It’s a game for them. I get out of fhe truck,walk up to one is standing and raise my hand to slap their butt. They run off the road about 20 feet and stare at me like I am evil or something.
I have a large wooden dock where I have a 52 foot pontoon houseboat moored, plus an 18 foot Avon Runabout. As many of you may know, I am Shawnee Indian and the Shawnees lived off the land by eating what was available and doing what they had to do.
Amen, #36 Angie - from a former 10-year SouthEast Florida resident. I always pity the people who profess their love for FL based on their one-week-per-year trips. Florida is obnoxious - the weather, the natives, the tourists, the snowbirds, the transplants, the identical neatly-stuccoed subdivisions, the lack of culture, the monotony. I regret every single season of every single year that was missed while being relegated to live in that ghastly place. Long live the snow!
LET IT SNOW….I’m an old Missouri boy (Salem, St Louis, Bel Ridge) that has lived in Kentucky for the past 35 years. We have had some good snows here in Glasgow during that time, but for the season we have not had enough to even make a small snowball and only in our dreams can we make a snowman (or woman). So, I say, enjoy the snow, play in it and think of an old Missouri Allen who it seems can only get rain………..Cheers to all
WOW~~~
Looks like the snow has everyone all ticked off. Are your long underwear all bunched up or something. Just relax people, come Sunday this will ALL be gone & almost 60 on Sundays. Then I guess we will all get angry waiting in line at the car washes… hahaha.. Its Mardi Gras weekend people. I have the Hurricanes & Beads.. who wants beads??