Winter white

This morning I awoke rather ambitious and made a large apple pecan pancake in the iron skillet for Cindy and myself. Cindy liked it. Pretty good for someone without a recipe to go from and a lack of surety about the ingredients. It is somewhat amazing what you can put together when you have the time and the inclination.

The gamblers on the weather were all talking about snow today. When I woke up it just looked overcast. The temperature was not that cold and there wasn't a big hint of precipitation. But lo and behold, at around 11:00 this morning, I was in line at the Ingles' supermarket and looked out the big windows to see big, beautiful flakes of snow coming down. When I got into the parking lot, I could tell nothing was sticking. But it still looked pretty.

By the way, I thought it was kind of interesting to see what everyone was getting in preparation for the storm. There were a whole lot of white bread, pimento cheese and boxes of 'little debbie's' being purchased. I think I have discovered a pattern between cold weather and the present state of weight and physical health in the USA. There are a whole lot of unhealthy things being eaten in America when it gets cold.

Well, the afternoon has come and gone and the snow storm is drifting up the east coast of America. The temperature outside is just under freezing and I wonder what the people in Virginia and Maryland and New Jersey are eating in their homes tonight. Hopefully better than pimento cheese on white bread and 'little debbies.' I would like to envision the Marylanders eating clam chowder and crabcakes. The New Jerseyites eating pizza and drinking beer. Or maybe cannolis. "Leave the gun; get the cannolis."

Tonight everything is supposed to freeze again. Tomorrow may be more dangerous than it is right now. Black ice and cars going crazy on the highway. It might be better to just stay at home and go to church in the morning. If there is church in the morning.

Which all goes to lead me to say that it is very rare when we get a Winter storm which really lays us under. It has happened in the past, but it is very rare.

But right now there is a dusting of Winter white which is quite pretty on this January Saturday afternoon.