Speaking of nostalgia, my mum and I were talking about the snow of days long gone by, when it towered over the roads and driving the car down the road was like driving through a tunnel of sorts.
Roofs groaned under the weight of it and every winter there would be reports of someone's house collapsing due to the heavy snowload.
Last winter was a winter like that - houses and barns collapsing under the heavy weight. But also so many snow days off school, that kids were out playing and making snow forts and snowmen, snowball fights.... parents joining in, then wondering what they were doing getting all soaking wet with melted snow, and cold. Yet going right back out there doing it again the next day.
Looks like this winter is also shaping up to do that - I see my neighbour's youngsters out playing in the snow, their uncle screaming at them to get out of the way as he tries to plow the drive. Then giving in to the oldest, to 'teach' them how to drive the quad and plow snow - teach them young so they can clear the snow!
Next winter could be like most of the winters the past 25 years - little snow, dry cold air, then wet rainy weather mixed in. The weather sure has changed here in the past 40 years.
