Winter Wonderland

It's as if my Fake Winter post angered DC. We've now had more snow in a week than perhaps my whole 3.5+ years living here. I finally called home to ask my mom to send my winter boots out here, before our predicted weekend snow storm.

Mind you, it is still a mild winter compared to the Mighty Midwest. The temperatures are in the upper 20s, low 30s. The snow is the big, white, fluffy kind that you can't quite make a really good snowball out of. But a nice white blanket now covers the city. We'll see; maybe more will come this weekend.

I am enjoying it, though part of what I am enjoying is the opportunity to display my Midwestern "flinty toughness." When my friends from warmer climates remark on the weather and the snow, I get to say things like "Oh, this is nothing compared to the Halloween blizzard of '94" and "This? This is a warm spring day in Minneapolis. You barely need a coat."