We love snow. We are, as this lady would say, snow people. When I tell the boys the weather forecast is for snow flurries, they haul the sleds out of the equipment shed to the sledding hill “just in case”, they take the weed eater out and whack down anything that has had the nerve to grow in cold weather on their sledding hill and they begin asking if I’ll whip up some of my home made hot chocolate.
When enough snow does come to Tennessee for sledding (about once a year), we wear ourselves out going down and coming up the hill. We sled until we’re soaked. We turn the streetlight on and sled at night. We build a bonfire in the yard, warm up and keep going. We make snow angels, snowmen and snow ice cream. We are card carrying snow people of Tennessee.
The beauty of living here in Tennessee is that snow comes down a lot but it doesn’t lay. I get to enjoy the beauty but don’t have to drive in it – until now. Usually any snow is gone within a day – two at the most. We have had more snow in the last month than we have had in almost 10 years combined. However, the rules of Tennessee snow have been violated. The contract has been broken and not by us – we were perfectly happy!
We have had 4 to 5 inches fall at one time – and before it could even begin to melt here comes another 2…or 3…or an ice storm. This is the south people!
When I tell the boys that more snow is predicted, I am now greeted with moans instead of whoops of joy. Our church meetings have been canceled, our home groups have been canceled. We are done with snow. I must remind you that we are not Colorado snow people, or North Dakota snow people – we are Tennessee snow people and that is a completely different critter. The scary part is that February is the month that gets the most snow here. Where can we turn in our cards?
Our house sits at the bottom of a small incline. Therefore, when the deluge of snow begins to melt it all runs down toward me and then freezes at night. This is how we ended up with 2 inches of ice covered by 6 inches of snow on our driveway. I drive a minivan – no 4 wheel drive. It doesn’t do snow very well – much less ice.
Even though we haven’t had snow in days – my gravel driveway still looks like this..in the sunshine!
Blessings!
The Essential Herbalist 
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