Let it SNOW, let it SNOW, let it SNOW!

Someone has been singing that old SNOW song!!  We received FOUR FEET last weekend and another TWO FEET of powder this weekend!!  The skiiers are ecstatic and the plow operators are planning their vacations to Tahiti or any place warm and without SNOW!  It always amazes me the way that humans and even doggies become children again when in the snow.  Our old German Shepherd - Elke-Dog was her name - became a pup again when presented with fresh snow.  She would leap to the top of a slope, yipping up a storm, and slither down on her back, head first, feet in the air as if she were a pup rather than an elderly, arthritic, 14 year old DOG!

I am not quite that "crazy" - I haven't slid down a hill in quite a while.  Too afraid that I will "break something!"  Even the skiing, which we did a LOT of not that many years ago, has lost its allure.  But it is fun to watch others enjoy what we enjoyed so often! 

I did receive several compliments on my ski outfit last weekend.  I wore it to shovel snow!!  I had designed and stitched it many years ago for a skiing vacation.  And it was a YOUNG person doing the complimenting; that made my day!  So I guess that I am not "an old dog yet!" when I can get a charge out of a compliment that reminds me of my "younger days!"

Live each day so you never have to look back with regret. 

ONE MORE RIVER TO CROSS!

Having driven through 16 states - 7037 miles in a month - I can attest to the fact that the MOST POLITE drivers on the Interstates are in the states of TN and VA!  Not once did I notice a vehicle entering the traffice without someone making a SPACE for them!  Big rig drivers in all states drive like that, but not all vehicle drivers. We have a BEAUTIFUL and varied country; but there is NO PLACE like HOME!  Coming over Carson Pass on a snowy Sunday afternoon, we felt like SINGING!!

We need more of that beautiful white fluffy stuff called SNOW in Strawberry, but winter is not over yet.  The ski area - Dodge Ridge - still has plenty and the grooming crew does such a good job of spreading it around!  The instructors are famous for their skill in all the various age groups. 

Leland High Sierra Snow Play has that "magic" tow to get you back to the top of their beautifully groomed runs for the tubes.  It is SUCH FUN to go whizzing down the hill; go in for a warm cup of coffee or hot chocolate.  It sure beats "suicide hill" along the side of the road where you take your life in your hands just getting out of your car as the traffic goes whizzing by.  AND don't even think about parking in the "NO PARKING" areas at Little Sweden - the State can use the money from the ticket that you will get, but it seems a good way to ruin a trip to the mountains!