I’ve noticed in the mornings while getting ready for work, my mom will often look out of the window and say how beautiful the day is. This is on truly beautiful clear days, as well as gloomy and rainy days. Her view on life itself has been completely altered. She now enjoys every single day regardless of anything bad that may be happening, nasty weather, or any of the other small insignificant things that we often let ruin our enjoyment of daily life.
It’s pretty obvious by looking at the road closure map, that we never get enough ice or snow to really make preparing for any really worth it. The way it usually works is if they call for anything, we get nothing. It’s really not that much different for what we got yesterday evening. We only got enough snow to dust the ground to where things are mostly white, but not really enough for it to be enjoyable—just a mess. But since the temperatures have been below freezing for the past few days, it was just right for the snow to melt on the roads and then refreeze to make them icy. It’s not really at all what we were expecting, we were expecting a few inches of snow, but it was still enough for work to be canceled today.
I spent a few hours this morning outside doing some field surveying. It’s sunny and supposed to be mid 80°s today, as well as for the next 5 days. This is the weather I very much enjoy. The type of temperatures that force you to shed your jackets or hoodies and forget the cool wet weather that’s maybe finally over for a while.
I even spent my lunch hour at home today and swapped for my bike. It’s just too nice outside to pass up the opportunity to feel the sun and warm air on your body as you travel the same route back to work that seems so different on a motorcycle.
There’s so many other things that have been held up waiting on the summer months. Our house is well overdue for new shingles. We’ve been working the past few afternoons on putting up a new fence at my grandma’s house, and then there’s my parents new place that was coming along nicely until we just put a hold on it until the warm months came back. Lot’s of outside work — which is nice.
We actually got some snow last night! Not much at all really, but school was canceled (due to ice on the parking lots) in the city and county. Which meant a delayed opening at work today, 10:00 instead of 8:30 
A couple of cell phone pics:
For over the past week, it’s seemed like we’ve had nothing but rain in my area. Hopefully we’ve had enough recently to satisfy the weatherpeople’s craving for rain, since they are usually saying “we’re in the need of some precipitation.” I assumed with it being mid December, once the rain passed we’d be hit with the cold. And today it definitely happened.
When I arrived at work this morning I checked the temperature. It was 18° outside with a windchill of 4°! That’s the kind of cold that feels like it cuts you in half. As I’m writing, it’s 25° with a windchill of 18°, so not quite as bad as this morning. The crazy part is that the end of the week and Saturday is supposed to be in the 50s & 60s!
While leaving work earlier today to head to lunch, I was struck with the unpleasant reminder that summer is quickly fading to fall. Leaves rustled across the pavement as the breeze carrying tomorrow’s “much needed” rain approached and carried with it the fall coolness. While I do enjoy the bright colors that fall brings for a short time, trees losing their lively green leaves leave the mountains and scenary with such a drab, almost dead, look. The season of fall has always struck me as a depressing season. It is, afterall, the end of summer.
I know it’s going to be short lived, but there’s actually snow coming down 
Hoping that the temp drops pretty quick and we at least have a delayed opening at work tmw 
Probably won’t happen, but worth hoping for anyways, lol.
This is going to be unusual for this time of year, but VERY nice. We hardly ever get any snow whatsoever when it is cold enough for it here, so I’d take the following any day over these 30°F temperatures that we’ve been having here lately.
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