Winter...My Perspective☺

Here it is, Feb. 4th and I'M READY for SPRING...already!!! What is going on in this time of 'Global Warming'??? What globe is Al Gore the Bore talking about?? We've had 2 pretty nice snows...in itself is a small wonder because here in this part of the globe (Statesville). They are calling on an ice/snow/freezing rain/rain mixture in the next 36 hours...I'm not even a FAN of cold weather! I had 'wished' to move to Alaska--the state once governed by Gov. Sarah Palin, the "Last Frontier"...but I think that I am going to have to recant that wish right now! What was I thinking???

Just let me rant just a minute (my space, right??). Just what do we pay the D.O.T. for anyway??? Are they a waste of $$$ here in Iredell County?? It snowed last Friday & Saturday here. They managed to scrap one side of Old Mountain Road pretty good and the other side was left to wear/melt as well as possible. As far as 'Secondary Roads' such as East Monbo, Pineville, Buffalo Shoals, Island Ford etc. have been left to melt as time passes. My real beef is why are all the DOT trucks on the roads...all over the county with their blades pulled up?? What do they think they are for?? Drop 'em and scrap the roads you're riding on already!! You see those guys crusing on the other roads...Don't have an 'order' to scrape a certain road?? Then why be on it?? I saw 2 trucks sitting at Kat's Patch parking lot the other day....I guess they were discussing the up-coming Super Bowl game or something. Why do they get paid to sit in a parking lot when there are roads all OVER the county that needs scraping. And if these morons that actually DO clean off a road (such as Old Mountain Road) would drive slower and safer, they wouldn't be knocking down all those mail boxes and newspaper boxes! If the driver themselves had to come back and fix this destruction, they might think again about flying up and down the road at 40 or 45 miles an hour while cleaning off the road!!

On a positive note, Christy and I have spent several days out taking pictures of the white fluffy stuff! Snow creates a totally different look for the world that we live in! We went out yesterday to North Iredell to snap a few (hundred) pics and it was SOOOOO beautiful! Even the cemetery there at Snow Creek looked extraordinary!!! Cattle feeding in the snow, horses grazing in pastures, barns varnished with the magical white, hills and valleys dressed in the satin sheen...ALL gifts from God for us that take our breath away!!

This is what I LOVE about winter...but the mess after it starts to melt, the difficulty that I/we have in motoring around in the unkept roads (see above!), driveways and parking lots that are problematic for our entry and getting about, the yard that poor Toby is reluctant to go out into to use the bathroom in (LOL), the chance of losing power during these storms--especially ice! All this makes spring look better and better!!

Besides--spring brings---YES....BASEBALL!!!!!!