Alright, so it's February. It actually feels like winter here in KS this year. There is snow on the ground (snow snow and not ice snow) and it's cold. I find I use my snow boots a lot more here than I ever did in SoDak. Up north, when it snows or the weatherman even hints at snow, every business and the transportation department of every city and county takes precautionary de-icing methods. Then once it snows, the trucks and plows come out - even if it's 3 am - and do their thing. By the time I need to walk outside to do something the roads, sidewalks and parking lots are cleared. That is not the case in Kansas. Eventually it gets cleared away, but the snow can remain in parking lots and on sidewalks for a few days. They probably just don't have the manpower (as a conscientious anthropologist I should say humanpower) or the budget to get it done right away, but in the end I think more accidents are caused by poorly maintained roads and parking lots.
Another thing I noticed about when it snows in Kansas is that people get excited. This is not a bad thing, but it can cause traffic problems. They want to leave their homes and drive around in their usually unnecessary SUVs and trucks or their snow fearing Ford Festivas. I think I see way more traffic on the highway that runs by our house when it snows than any other time I drive it. The Kansans' "snow excitment" rubbed off on us so one of the days it snowed Javers and I put the new flashy red truck into 4 wheel drive and took it into town to run some errands. Jeremy ended up stopping to push/pull two different cars out of the snow.
I like the snow, though. It makes everything brighter. Some psychology organization should do a study on seasonal depression and see if people affected by it get happier when there is snow on the ground.
What else is going on? Not much. Same ol' same ol'. Last year at this time I had just moved to another state AND moved in with Jeremy AND started a graduate program so I was freaking out. This year I am far less exciting. I'm okay with that.
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Gee, the sun is shining and it's 72 degrees outside down here in the San Miguels. Although we did get quite a lot of snow last weekend...God bless El Nino (which is Spanish for "The Nino"). I can't figure out how to get the tilda sign in there, but you all know enough Spanish to know where it belongs.
Sarah
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