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- From: rvacca@vyasa.helios.nd.edu (robert vacca)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: snow, snow, and more snow
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.043859.5990@news.nd.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 04:38:59 GMT
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- Kevin Schnitzius writes:
- >I was going to make some sarcastic remark about how nice it is living
- >living in Florida and all but I realized that would be cruel.
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- Oh, I don't know. Indiana can have some great weather.
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- Had dawn been visible, it would have dawned upon a great
- blast of winter, which sent flurries of snow chasing each other
- along the streets and across the sidewalks. The wind howled, and
- trees shook. There was just enough visibility to see that there
- was none. It was a perfect day to spend inside, in front of a
- roaring fire, with a special woman, two mugs of hot cocoa, and a
- large pile of quilts.
- The snow stopped. The sun peeked out from behind all the
- clouds, liked what it saw, and joined the scene in earnest. Light
- shone blindingly off the fresh-fallen snow. It was far too bright
- and cheery to cocoon inside, so we went outdoors to discover that
- the weather was perfect for a day of cross-country skiing. We
- loaded up our ski gear- old wooden skis, still smelling of pine,
- and fur-lined cross-country skiboots. Then we drove, the first
- car on the streets, to the county park. Deer pranced among the
- trees. The river wended its way through forests denuded of leaves,
- the only green in a sea of white.
- The temperature had risen to a balmy fifty-five degrees,
- then clouds appeared and the rains came down, in what would have
- been a gentle spring shower had it been spring.
- We scrapped the skiing, went home, put on our rubbers
- (boots, ya dirty-minded schoolkids...), grabbed a bright red
- umbrella, and stomped through the puddles, singing merrily as
- we went.
- The rain reached epic proportions. I gave up stomping
- through puddles with a special woman, and got together with a
- bunch of old friends from high school. We played tackle football,
- diving into the mud, laughing and overflowing with cameraderie.
- With youthful exuberance and zest, we desported ourselves with
- the aesthetics of an advertisement for an expensive mens' accessory
- and the innocence of an age gone by.
- Tornado-force winds blew our football under a truck.
- We went home, and cursed the weather, and wished we were
- somewhere where balmy breezes blow off the Caribbean.
- For the rest of the day, the weather was dreary. The sky
- was a particularly flat shade of gray, leaching all light and action
- from the world. It was the void of a world without life, filled with
- an eerie silence that was almost poetic in its drabness, like a
- drowned baby starling, dead before it left the nest.
-
- The problem with Indiana is that there's too much weather.
-
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- David Vacca, Just an Excitable Boy.
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- [I'd tell you to what address to send any replies, but
- I'm afraid I'll provoke another wandering thread...]
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