It is Winter AGAIN!

BRRRR!!  After a week of Spring, it is snowing again!  Today I had to turn the heater on in the office in Strawberry, I wore my rain coat over a turtle neck and nearly froze until the heater did its job!  But the phone is ringing for SUMMER!!  Did everyone just decide that winter was OVER because the daffodils are blooming down below?   It isn't even Easter Week YET!  Dodge Ridge always TRIES to stay open until the Easter Break which is the first week of April this year.

I had to give my meteorology lecture again this afternoon to someone from the Bay Area.  He asked if we had lots of snow around the cabins?  I asked him if he had had lots of rain down there where he lives, you can't have one without the other!  Kinda like the old song about "Love and Marriage, love and Marriage, go together like a horse and carriage.  This I tell you brother, you can't have one without the other!"
I know, I am REALLY giving away my age!  They just don't write songs like in the "olden days."

"This ol' house is getting shaky, this ol' house is gettin' old, this ol' house lets in the rain, this ol' house lets in the cold.  On my knees I'm getting weary but I feel no pain or fear cuz' I see an angel peekin' through that window frame right there."  Then there was Tennessee Ernie Ford singin' about loading 16 tons!  I wonder how many kids even KNOW what a ton is, let alone how to shovel, and shovel and shovel some more!  They just don't write songs like that any more!  Songs of LIFE, songs of HOPE, songs of TRUTH.  I guess that it is not politically correct, but I miss the days when we could sings Christmas Carols at school and still learn about the holidays of others as well!  Seemed more politically correct the way we did it back then, and think of all the parties we had - we celebrated everyones "Holy Days!"

My mom even took us to every Vacation Bible School in the neighborhood - same Bible, same songs, even some of the same crafts!!  One week we were Nazarene, couple of weeks later we were Lutheran, and the next time we were Baptists.  Sure didn't hurt us and we all knew the 23rd Psalm and the Lord's Prayer - found out some folks said "sins" and others "trespasses" but knew that they all meant - hey, GOD FORGIVES YOU, you better forgive others!!  Our Methodist Church has been cooperating with the Catholics across the street the last three years.  They have an air-conditioned large building, we have lots of adult helpers and about a third of the kids are ours!   Praise GOD!

How did I ever get from SNOW to Vacation Bible School?  Must have been the popped corn...we used to glue it to trees for either snow or blossoms!!  We had corn for supper tonight?!  (;-)

So come and see the pretty puffy snow of the trees before the sun melts it all (unlike the popped corn!)  Have a great week, I am waiting for your call!!