I Dream of a 'Semi-White' Christmas!!

Did you know, that the last time it snowed here in Portland was in 1990?!? But even then, though it snowed, it never stuck, i.e. never collected on the ground.

Do you know when was the last time it snowed on Christmas and collected on the ground? 1936!!!

Then 70 years later, I come to Portland and it's my first Christmas here, and do you know what happens? It snows!! It gets even better!! It sticks too!! So in spite of the prediction that the chances of a white Christmas is less than 1%, Portland had a White Christmas!! Actually a Semi-White Christmas. The snow didn't cover the ground and roof tops entirely!!! there were some patches showing through.



On Christmas day, we were sitting in the living room of Paul's Parent's house, watching my wedding video, to while away the time until Christmas lunch. And I feel rather sad to say, that it almost put me to sleep!! It pains me further to say that I don't remember half the things on the wedding video :( Anyway, everyone was watching the video and I was dozing off when Mom brings my attention to.... The Snow!!! It was snowing and very fast too. I took some pictures of their backyard where the snow had collected, and it looked, Semi-White :)

Then we went out, and I scraped up some of the snow and made some mini snowballs, and me and Paul, had a snowball fight!!! As expected, Paul got me every time, and I missed every time, but once. :(

I really like snow but I don't like some of the things it brings with it, mostly ice and brrrr.... the cold. Though it doesn't snow here that often, ice does form pretty easily, especially on the cars. So one day when we were coming back from work, Paul pretended to get really excited when we neared the car."Oooooh Honey, do you want to try something new?" Me, being the customary bholi-bhali-lalloo, I went "Yes, Yes, Yes!!!" So he goes, "Look at the ice on the car! Have you seen this before?" I was really excited, "Oh Wow!! No, No! This is the first time!" Then he shows me this tool, a scraper. It's a plastic thing with a flat head and a small handle. Then Paul says, "Take this, and start scraping the ice from the windshield. You start from the edge and move to the center. Then you can do it from the other side." I still didn't get that he was tricking me into one of the most undesirable tasks ever! He got into the car and turned on the heater, while I dutifully started the scraping. If I ever missed a spot, he would happily point it out. Halfway through the front windshield, my hands were beginning to hurt, it was really cold, I was scraping ice after all!! When I'm finally done, and thought the torture is over, he says "Now the side windows. And then you can do the back windshield." I grunted and muttered my way through the rest of them. But I didn't complain, after all it was my stupidity that got me there!!

Now, Paul thought he could fool me again, and again. So the next time there was ice on the car, he said, "Oooooh Honey!! Do you want to do something exciting?" I got into the car, buckled up, turned on the heat and said, "Yes please! I would like to see it from in here!!" :P

You don't fool me twice!!! (OK, maybe sometimes....)

Source: All weather statistics are the courtesy of: Paul :)