<p>I’m so jealous. If it’s going to be cold, I want some snow! We rarely get snow and if we do, it’s just a few wayward flakes. We have 10 built in snow days at school (I’m a school nurse) and darn it, we never get to take a stinkin’ day. Y’all would laugh at us if you saw how little snow it takes to get the school phones ringing off the hook with parents wondering if we’re getting out early that day. One year, in Metro Nashville, they canceled school one day based on the forecast. It never snowed a flake. We Southerners get very excited at the thought of snow … well, at least this Southerner does.</p>
<p>Well, kudos for the very romantic thread title, anyway. The wind has just really kicked up here in S.E. PA, and they’re saying we may get a little white stuff tonight and tomorrow. Here’s hoping.</p>
<p>D just called to say she heard that Olympia and Tacoma schools are closed. There’s no more than 2-3" of snow on the ground.</p>
<p>I think these Seattle/Tennessee… folks are ready for our New England snow “story.”
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<p>jmmom, that is hilarious. I guess I can see how people would get a bit tired of it after a while. I just never get the opportunity to do so. :(</p>
<p>In truth, SplashMom, I do love the snow ( 
most of the time). But we do get a great laugh around here out of that “story.” Ditto with the leaves - we had such fun raking leaves those first two autumns. Now? Not so much - guess that would explain our move to a condominium. But the fall foliage is worth it… For sure.</p>
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Now that I can relate to totally. We have some rather large trees in our yard and the majority of the leaves have finally fallen so I went out a yesterday and raked, and raked, and raked … you know the scene. Three and a half hours later, DD and I had only gotten 15 or so bags filled before the loss of sunlight and the cold temperature got to us. I am really not looking forward to going home and completing that job today. I do agree that the colors are so beautiful, it makes it worth it.</p>
<p>Gray and drizzling in Southern California. 
Snow would be fun.</p>
<p>Ouch. No California Dreaming for us today. Blustery in DC…</p>
<p>We, in Olympia, have about an inch still in the yard before D in Northampton, MA got any real snow. How weird. Unfortunately, the school closure and delay info got very screwed up this morning and so our 15 year old left for school at 6:30a (she likes to get there early) to discover that school wasn’t starting until 10. Then they got out at noon because it was a half day, 13 min classes, but as she says now they don’t have to make it up at the end of the year. It took until about 7:30 for the TV stations to have the correct info and the website that was supposed to have it crashed from 5:30 to 8am. Many unhappy parents.
Ellen</p>
<p>Ah, my beloved Pacific Northwest. If it’s not raining, it’s about to. If it’s snowing, then armaggedon is on the way.</p>
<p>They’re saying we’ll get 3-5" in the Philly suburbs tonight. I’m psyched, spent much of yesterday getting the Christmas lights up in anticipation. Love it.</p>
<p>Snowed in Princeton Saturday night. D and friends were up socializing at 2:30am when the snow began to fall. The Californians ran out and played giddily. Then the kids from Ivy, the most hoighty toity of clubs traditionally, ran out into the snow naked.</p>
<p>You gotta love college.</p>
<p>SplashMom: is it snowing near y’all now? Because there’s this wet, white, cold stuff coming down here…</p>
<p>I will most likely not be running out into the snow naked tonight, but I still understand the urge.</p>
<p>If there’s a hot sauna nearby, it’s quite a nice thing to run into the snow naked afterwards. Gotta have a good strong heart, though…</p>
<p>I’m basically a Labrador retriever, at heart.</p>
<p>Where we go at the mountains they have a snowrollers club-
for those who roll in the snow after sitting in the outdoor hot tub.
Never got serious about the snowrolling part- although my D2 has.
It is very romantic sitting in the tub though looking up at the snow and the stars… until all the children come in.</p>