Talk about the weather

As predicted, we did not do the whole Clean Sweep thing yesterday, so the house is still a mess. We did not even do one room. We did very little except watch TV.

For about a week the TV weather people had been warning us about the first freeze of the year. It was coming. Do something. Bring in your pets, cover your plants, wrap your exposed pipes, etc....

That was on the TV Wednesday night when I fell asleep, and it was still on TV the next morning when I woke up. So I poked my head out the door to see what all the fuss was about.

And it didn't look bad at all.

It had rained the night before, but the ground was just wet, not frozen. The temperature was just at thirty-two degrees, but it didn't seem to have done any damage. Not at all what I had expected to see with all the school closings and all. But, there could be patches of ice elsewhere in the Metroplex. It's not like the whole area has exactly the same temperature and conditions.

Still, it was cold, and my plan for the day was to stay inside and eat soup and drink hot chocolate.

But there is always something that changes the plan. Like I forgot that at least one of us had to go out and drop off a package. There is almost always that. And as long as we are going to go outside anyway, we might as well go out and have lunch.

Strange, but it got colder. That rarely happens. The rain and such can happen anytime, but the actual drop in temperature usually gets to the low point during the night or very early morning. So when one would think that it should be warming up, it actually dropped a few more degrees and was only twenty-eight when we went out. And by then there was sleet or freezing rain or something. Still, it doesn't seem to be sticking to the road, so it was mostly safe to drive on except over bridges. So it was safe to go to lunch.

Later, after we were safe at home, there was white stuff falling. But it didn't look like snow at all. I mean, it sort of looked like snow until you got a closer look, cause if you picked it up it didn't stick together like snow, and it wasn't soft and fluffy like snow. It was more like big grains of sand or little tiny glass beads.

Then later, it did snow. So there was three layers of different stuff on the ground, but not enough of any of it to cover the grass. And now it's totally gone, except for a few patches here and there in the shadows.

Now, we rarely get a nice normal snowfall, but that was weird even for here.