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January 30, 2014

When Life Gives You Snow, Make Snowmenade!

By Lib

Snow. I’ve said it before – snow is that beautiful white fluffy stuff that blankets your yard, makes the air crisp and silences unwanted clatter. It makes me feel home.

Other Atlantans disagree. Because things like this happen.

snowstorm traffic jam

                                                                  A hiccup.                                                                  (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP Photo) from http://abcnews.go.com/US/slideshow/southern-snow-storm-22280146

Which leads to this.

atlanta traffic in snow

                                                                A gulp.                                                                (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP Photo) from http://abcnews.go.com/US/slideshow/southern-snow-storm-22280146

And then this.

snow in atlanta traffic jam

                             Reckless abandon. Like literal reckless abandon.                                                                     (David Tulis/AP Photo) from                                   http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/30/us/winter-weather/

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January 6, 2014

Throw-Back-Monday: Snow Days

By Lib

This throw-back goes out to my Northern friends. I know you might be a bit tired of that precious white powder that is blanketing your landscape, but I want to remind you how lucky you are.

I’m jealous. I miss snow. I miss it a lot. I don’t miss shoveling it in May, but this time of year just isn’t the same without sub-zero wind chills and  a large white canvas calling my name. You really haven’t lived if you haven’t played in snow.

My siblings and I would build snow forts for our snowball fights (snowballs we’d spritz with water so they were rock hard – the only way to have a REAL snowball fight). I think one of my sisters may have been devious enough to put rocks in some of them as well. We were hardcore. Continue reading

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