First Snow

While we were up in Georgia/Tennessee it snowed... This is good and bad. The children had never seen snow and they were very excited about it, Matthew even got in his first snow ball fight! Katherine and I had gone over for the evening to Tom & Tracey's to visit and see Pumpkin/Dooley (one of Patches puppies). Tom & Tracey were the ones who breed beagles (Snoopy was a Beagle) You can view their website here www.soundsofthesouthbeagles.com . Anyway, Tracey went to let Dooley out to pee and said, "We've got white!" I stood Katherine outside and took her picture which is what you see above. It was really coming down but it didn't show up very good. You can only see the snow starting to lay on the deck. Roger & Matt were with my cousin Amy and some others at a GIG her husband Mark had with his band. Mark plays the drums for a Christian rock band. Mark is a business man by day and a drummer by night. Their band's name is "Evidence of Faith". Some of their music is pretty hard- it reminds me of when I was younger... They've got one really good song I like called "Stop and Pray" or at least I think that's what it's called. ANYWAY... When the show was over they came out to WHITE! Amy took a picture of Matt with her camera phone and as soon as I get it I will put it on flickr...
The bad thing about snow in Georgia/Tennessee is that it gets cold enough to snow then the temperature rises just enough to melt than it drops again and freezes to make ICE. All the northern states deal pretty well with the winter months because it is mainly just snow, not ice. Georgia/Tennessee does not deal with ice well at all. When I was in school I used to turn on the news every morning before school to watch the SNOWBIRD REPORT. If they even thought it was going to snow we got the day off. Schools don't want to deal with taking kids home on Black Ice. When we lived in Georgia 6 1/2 years ago Roger didn't BELIEVE in ice. If he didn't see it, it didn't exist. I told him to slow down and BELIEVE ,have FAITH, but he wouldn't. I told him we were going to SLIDE but he told me to RELAX. We slammed into the curb... Black ice... not a good thing. Especially when you are moving your mother's stuff. Thank God Sunday morning it had melted.
I am a true Floridian now. I HATE THE COLD. It gives me a headache. I got sick on our drive home PARTLY due to the fact that we did so much driving and it was so cold. Remember, I said PARTLY. The rest was a woman thing. I threw-up in a TACO BELL bathroom and this time it had nothing to do with the food because I didn't eat there-just used them for their facilities. I couldn't even fake I was better when I got to the outlet mall right outside Macon- Georgia to shop at the Gap & Old Navy Outlet. It was REALLY HARD to pass up getting shirts and pants for $3 bucks. It was so bad that we ended up stopping and getting a room at a COMFORT INN in a one horse town 80 miles north of Valdosta. I was ALSO traveling with a 6 week old beagle puppy Tom & Tracey had me to bring home. A couple that purchased him was driving to our house from Orlando to pick him up. His name was SAM. He was so CUTE! When we got home, I picked up Patch and Bartholomeu from Lana and Teresa's. Bartholomeu ran up and smelled Sam's Kennel. Sam barked and Bartholomeu jumped like he had been shot!
Can you believe I am going to attempt this drive again at the end of next month for Hayden's christening? I have lost my mind...
But I'll be there
Puking
and cold
with Bells
On my toes