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I Still Like Winter
Jan. 27th, 2005 09:18 pmOkay, so the sidewalk outside my house hasn't been plowed yet, after two storms. But I'm not about to jump on the bandwagon with the maddening people at work who seem to have nothing better to talk about than to gripegripegripegripe about the snow. Hel-LO! people! It's winter in New England: it snows here, and it gets cold. You wanna live in Florida? Fine, move there. Be my guest! (Then *I* won't have to listen to you) But you'll miss having four seasons. And get used to hurricanes: remember last summer when the thing that causes hurricanes decided to use Florida for a punching bag? I heard you whinging about the shortage of good oranges because the Florida orange crop got killed by the bad weather down there.
I'm not bashing Florida, I'm just going after the people who gripe about the weather... They should be thankful this was only a couple of *snowstorms*, not a tsunami, and now all the businesses along the shore are gone since the waves destroyed them. Sure, there are houses covered with ice down the Cape, but the ice will melt and the house will still be there!
One of these days, I'll have to find the very funny parody of John Greenleaf Whittier's lovely classic poem "Snowbound" -- if you haven't read it, it's a nice, lyric poem about a New England farming family in the 1800s enjoying a snowstorm -- where I substituted every reference to snow with some reference to mud falling from the sky. I wrote it this way to show that there could be worse things falling from the sky than fluffy ice crystals. And if we didn't have snow, how could Robert Frost have written the classic thought-provoking poem "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening"? And where would "Gawain and the Green Knight" be without the descriptions of the hunt in the snow? Edited to Add: And how would Currier & Ives, or Norman Rockwell have been able to make those etchings/paint those paintings of New England snow scenes?!
As my mother says, the three kinds of people who like to see the snow falling are skiers, children and poets. I've tried skiing and didn't particularly care for it, but I fit the latter two categories.
I'm not bashing Florida, I'm just going after the people who gripe about the weather... They should be thankful this was only a couple of *snowstorms*, not a tsunami, and now all the businesses along the shore are gone since the waves destroyed them. Sure, there are houses covered with ice down the Cape, but the ice will melt and the house will still be there!
One of these days, I'll have to find the very funny parody of John Greenleaf Whittier's lovely classic poem "Snowbound" -- if you haven't read it, it's a nice, lyric poem about a New England farming family in the 1800s enjoying a snowstorm -- where I substituted every reference to snow with some reference to mud falling from the sky. I wrote it this way to show that there could be worse things falling from the sky than fluffy ice crystals. And if we didn't have snow, how could Robert Frost have written the classic thought-provoking poem "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening"? And where would "Gawain and the Green Knight" be without the descriptions of the hunt in the snow? Edited to Add: And how would Currier & Ives, or Norman Rockwell have been able to make those etchings/paint those paintings of New England snow scenes?!
As my mother says, the three kinds of people who like to see the snow falling are skiers, children and poets. I've tried skiing and didn't particularly care for it, but I fit the latter two categories.
