| Beltway Babe Babble |
| For Me, Summer's a Bummer and Snow's the Way to Go! |
| by Janice Pfeiffer |
| Hello fellow DFR readers. Today in the Nations Capital, for the first time this season, we actually have snow. Lest I offend anyone, lets just be D.C. P.C., and we'll call it a "wintry mix" :) I feel I must comment, because overall, winter gets a really bad rap. |
Now I know there are dangers due to weather (we will not mention the child that was killed yesterday in the freak runway accident) but other than things like that, I am constantly baffled by people's hatred of what I think is the best time of the year. This comes particulary from people in my own family, who have lived in the Snowbelt (Western Pennsylvania ) for their entire lives!! Every year, it's "oh , no, its snowing again?" as if it's the desert and we are in the middle of some strange phenomenon. Now, I can see, people in the Middle East or Africa having this kind of reation, but jeez, people, its PITTSBURGH, for God's sake!
It's even worse here in DC, where a SINGLE flake is enough to shut down the entire Federal Government. The next thing you know, we will have the terror level raised to "white" as I am sure some consipracy theorist will think the snow is a biological threat from country that we may or may not be at war with.
Me? I love snow. I don't even mind the cold. There are some reasons for this. The first one is that I am an avid snow skier. Kind of tough to do it in the middle of July (well, here in on the East Coast, anyway.) My idea of heaven is to be a the top of a pristine white hill after it has been coated with a blanket of white, and to be the fist person to make tracks on it. Without trying to wax poetic, its truly a spiritual experience for me. Well, except the time I fell at Snoweshoe Mountain and ripped my shoulder out of its socket.
Another reason for my love affair with the cold is, unfortunately not my choice. I am the whitest woman in America. Literally. I'm a walking skin cancer ad. I couldn't get a tan if my life depended on it, so its strictly a spectator sport for me. Yes, folks, I am the one at the beach sporting the hat, super huge beach umbrella and enough sunblock to make a freckle-tini with!! After many painful burns over the years, I have come to accept this as my reality. So I say to all the whiners, complainers, and all around haters of the white stuff: quit your complaining and move to Florida already!!!!!!!
I'll miss you, but it makes more room on the mountains for me..... |
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