The Observation Deck

it's snowing!!!!

I'm always excited for the first snowfall even though I hate snow.

I think it's in the forecast tomorrow too so I wonder if some of it will stick on the plants and stuff.

Ivor..my favorite is ICE!!!

Rhonda

My son has been asking about snow for the last few weeks. I do hope it snows just a tiny bit when he's out of school, he'll be so excited. My favorite though is the first real snow fall, it just makes everything look so clean and pretty.

Just another plug here for the positives of Lakewood:

(that is, for those averse to snow's extremes)

I live here in Lakewood, of course, but for many years, I taught in a community southeast of here, and "up the hill", so to speak, in terms of elevation. As such, it was located at the beginning of the area referred to as the "snow belt".

Amazingly, so often I would leave Lakewood's bone-dry streets, only to get to the school building; where 3 inches of snow awaited me.

As well, the snow "up there" did not melt as quickly either, and their ground cover time often extended well beyond our own.

Perhaps most amusing, was the time during my last year of teaching when, due to an end-of-season storm, my school community was forced to call a snow day while here in Lakewood, I was actually able to mow my grass without a jacket!

Ah, the virtues of low-elevation lakeside living!

ICK. Don't like winters in my old age

One of these days I may need to head south!

Gary Rice wrote:Just another plug here for the positives of Lakewood:

(that is, for those averse to snow's extremes)

Ah yes, coming from Ashtabula, Lakewood is by far a winter treat of not too much snow I always enjoy the phone calls from my mother in the winter proclaiming the snow is above her waist and i can look out the window and say, "oh, really? we only have an inch or two..."

I miss the snow that we had in Germany.

it's the best packing snow so we'd always be sledding and building igloo's and having fun outside.

the powdery stuff here hurts when its blowing in the wind at 30mph. I never liked winters here, and now that I'm driving to and from school I'm not looking forward to it at allllll.

ahhhh, a nice bottle of merlot to warm the cackles.

hackles

cockles

Something that warms the cockles of one’s heart induces a glow of pleasure, sympathy, affection, or some such similar emotion. What gets warmed is the innermost part of one’s being. It’s not that surprising that it should be associated with the heart, that being the presumed seat of the emotions for most people. But what are the cockles?

We’re not sure. We do know that the expression turns up first in the middle of the seventeenth century, and that the earliest form of the idiom was rejoice the cockles of one’s heart.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-coc2.htm

Thanks for the research and then beat down. I stand corrected, though done in a kind and fashionable way (I must admit).

It's good to see office hours well spent. Government employees at one time?

Corey, the last sole left on Earth without spell check, Rossen

Corey

That would be "soul".....unless, of course, you're talking about your foot.....

Jeff

My feet define me as the man that I am--I figured "soul" was reaching too deep. Edit here: