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My family has gone skiing.  They have left me high and dry.  They left this morning and never looked back.  Not a tear, not a wish you were coming with us.  Actually, not even [...]

We are in the middle of a week long snow storm.  This fall we had a heat wave, which I loved (I don’t know why John Kerry is getting all worked up about global warming - I am kind of enjoying it!!!)
Well, now we are having snow, snow and more snow.  And I love it,  [...]

On Monday it was really raining here.  I was on the freeway and had only gone four miles, but I passed two separate accidents.  A reader sent this in and I had not heard this before, so I checked it out on snopes, they have a similar story but the lesson about cruise control is [...]

Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions.
Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with meltwater and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form.
When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to [...]

We are in the middle of a blizzard!  What fun!  There is a hill behind our home with a road.  Cars are sliding and getting stuck.  Last year, early in the morning, a school bus got stuck right behind our home.  We should definitely have a white Christmas. 

Hello World!  It is great to be here.  I have wanted to create a blog for a long time and here it is.  (Yes big brother, this is my blog and you are welcome to leave comments anytime.)  It is almost Christmas and the snow is beautiful.   

We left for Palm Springs on Christmas night.  The roads were great until we reached Beaver, Utah.   All of the sudden a storm blew in.  In a matter of seconds we were in a white out.  It was scary, but we found a semi and followed him.  By the time we reached a point where we [...]