I do miss "the cold and the white stuff" this time of year. Likely cause I enjoyed the childhood benefits of no school, endless snow fort making and snowball fights, followed by hot cocoa and pressing our frozen feet up against the warm oven door. Never drove in it, shoveled it or had to bundle my kids up 10 x daily and clean the wet mush they dragged in. It has been chilly, in the 50s here in Florida and I must say I am thankful for that much.It seems the neighbors come out more and it is much easier to decorate the green foliage with lots and lots and lots of lights. We took the kids to see the Nutcracker and on the way home we passed by a blockade of police and saw a line of probably 200 people...near a school yard...thought someone had gotten injured at a game and then noticed they were all in line to get a chance to have their kids play in a huge pile of the White Stuff manufactured and brought in by dump trucks my kids luckily were wiped out and so we suffered no begging but what a surprise to see people in line Paying to Play in the Snow. only in Florida.... Joanne P.S. Evelyn, who ever comes up short this year for presents will recieve a lovely gold box with a wonderful story inside!! Thanks X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:56:42 -0500 From: "Matt Mullaly" <2matt@rogers.com> To: NFLD-LAB-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <032f01c3c83f$9d0bd8c0$7906c944@swfla.rr.com> Subject: Re: [NFLD-LAB] "PICTURE PERFECT CHRISTMAS SETTING" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Evelyn, To paraphrase someone or other: Beauty (and snow) is in the eye of the beholder, And after 65 years of walking in it, driving in it, shoveling it and cursing it, I can't say I miss it one bit. And a happy holiday to you as well my friend. Matt > Hi Matt; > You just envy us Newfoundlanders now <grin> with the beautiful fresh > snow for Christmas. You're just a "Sun Headed Newfie" <big smiles> bet you > miss that beautiful fresh air!! > Our weather embraces DIVERSITY. It is the only place where you > can both swim and ice-fish all within the same day, in the same body of > water here in "New-fin- LAND", ask Brendan, he can verify this > statement<smiles> > > Happy Holidays Matt > Evelyn >