To Start...

My first blog. I'm excited. My cousin Shelley started blogging and wanted our clan to start too. I love the thought of being able to keep "in touch" this way. The distance from KY to OH is too far most of the time. Perhaps we've found a highway to keep us closer now! (Check her out at http://shelleystories.blogspot.com/. Love you Shell!)

So..what to say? Well, I'm here in Ohio, so let's start there. I love being a Buckeye...I really do. But there is one downfall. Winter...drags...on....forever! Today was 58 degrees. Nice breeze. Beautiful. Tomorrow they're calling for snow. SNOW!! Good grief!!

Driving in Ohio is most dangerous 2 times a year. One is during the first snowfall. Second is during the last snowfall. The first is because it's been Spring, Summer, Fall before we get back to snow again, and somehow during that time the sunshine, rain, hail, tornadoes, thunderstorms and whatever freak weather conditions have hit us have wiped our minds and memories completely void of how to drive in snow. People look at the white powder on the ground and think..."Oh, how pretty. I wonder what this lovely white powder on the ground is." Then they proceed to get in a car and crash into everything in site as they drive like there is no lovely white powder on the ground. Every year...

But perhaps even worse is the last snowfall. Because by then, we are sick of it. See, in Ohio snow does not just go away in a neat and tidy manner. No...first we endure the frigid temps, the piles of snow and ice, and then the slushy, sloppy mess of the thaw. And then, the weather will get nice. Just like today. 60 degrees or more. Sunshine. Men and women run through the streets exalting their freedom from parkas. Children pull out their beloved flip-flops and cut-offs. Put on a tee shirt. Work in your yard. What a glorious moment!!

But we should know...everyone who has lived here more than one year should know. It's not over yet. No...Mr. Winter will creep back in with that one final snowfall just to try and drive us all completely insane. And by then, it's too late. We don't care. We're tired of snow. We're tired of ice. We WANT to drive 65 miles an hour. It's our Right as Americans! And no stinkin' weather pattern is going to hold us back!! Oh, we see the white powder on the ground. But we are headstrong...we are determined...we are about to make the body shops very happy again. We have ended as we began. The circle is complete...

So..we'll see. Maybe we won't get the snow. But if we do, well - maybe I'll just stay home!

Until we meet again...