Dear Snow!

Oh how I love thee, let me count the ways.  I remember the days I longed for you growing up (in EASTERN NC).  If anyone would see just ONE small flake, the phone chain would begin to inform everyone to go look out their window.  Everyone would rush to the grocery store and basically everything shut down whether it was a light dusting or a whole INCH accumulated.  You were so rare in my life the past 26 years.   

Oh how things change.  The year 2010 changed drastically for me when I moved to WESTERN NC and you became a significant part of my life.  I really do love the way you look, the way you TASTE and the way you so clearly reflect the Lord and His majesty over creation.  I don't even mind the frigid temperatures that are required for you to appear now that my husband and family have so graciously provided me with some serious SNOW boots/gear.  However, you really do some annoying damage to our DRIVEWAY.  As in, you cause me SERIOUS anxiety over the means to get to and from our lovely cabin that sits so HIGH on the mountain.  You see, I really do love our house and the view from up high - but I did not like our driveway from the beginning before I experienced YOU invading it too.  Three words describe this driveway of ours:  long, STEEP, and narrow.  Before I met you on our driveway, it was intimidating enough going up and down.  Now, you come down beautifully and pile up THICK, then you turn to ice, and eventually you MELT producing more MUD than I have ever seen.  Mud that makes you slide everywhere.  Let me remind you again that there is NOT a lot of room to slide on this lovely driveway of ours without going over the side of the mountain.  So whether you are falling beautifully, turning to ice, or producing a pile of mud - you are not doing a great job welcoming me to Robbinsville.  You are SCARING me.  Do you feel my pain?  Not to mention, I've already given up EVER owning a clean, shiny vehicle again.  I now look like a professional mud slinger. 

Here is the thing dear snow.  Just when I think MAYBE just MAYBE you will be going away for a little while (meaning a day or two) and our driveway might have an opportunity to DRY, you make your appearance again.  And when you make your appearance around here, it's no light dusting or 1 to 3 inches - you like to go ALL OUT and snow 10 to 12 to 14 inches!  You are so humorous.  It seems you never end.  I guess reality is - me and you are going to have to become friends.  Can we compromise?  Make a deal?  I mean, it'd be cool to have a chance to miss you ya know?  Distance makes the heart grow fonder right?  The Lord commands me to love thy neighbor as thyself though so I shall be obedient but He also asks me to speak the truth in love!  How did I do?  I do apologize for any harshness because I really do like you - you just take some getting use to I guess. 

Good to see you last night and this morning by the way.  I'm REJOICING even though everyone is off of work today but me.  Is there anyway you could make it possible to shut down public accounting too when you are here?  Every now and then would be suhhweeet!

Goodbye for now.  I'll go outside and see you in a minute and maybe we can chat.
Jenni