Woke up this morning to a lovely accumulation of white stuff on the ground. Now, for Nurse K or LL, this would qualify as “Awwwww, how cute! They actually call that a snowfall!”
But in Louisiana, this is considered a Big Deal. Now, further north where I grew up, it wasn’t uncommon to get a dusting every year, and every three or four cycles through the calendar, an honest-to-goodness snowfall.
Well, if you consider 6-10 inches a snowfall.
But down here in Cajun country, even a dusting this light makes motorists, public safety officials and school administrators lose. their. freaking. minds.
So, KatyBeth is home with me today, even though she would’ve been anyway due to a upper respiratory infection.
I took the opportunity this morning to introduce my daughter to the fun of snowball fights, snow ice cream, and making snow angels – although the snow angel morphed into a mud angel after only a couple of swipes with her arms.
Even Boots got in on the fun. I’ll bet when Babs rescued him from that south Georgia puppy mill, he’d never have imagined this:
Poor thing. I gave him a full body clip not a month ago, and now we’ve got snow on the ground. Guess he sleeps inside tonight.
KatyBeth is beautiful!! I got a call this am from my sister in Lafayette, they got 2 inches!!!What town are you from? I am from Morgan City. My husband and I have been living in Memphis for 21 yrs.I thoroughly enjoyed your post on Crystal’s blog and followed the link here. I love your writing!! Stay warm!!Anna aka MissMommie
Be careful – you may have KatyBeth begging to move up here where we get snow all.the.time.Except this weekend, when we are supposed to get rain.
Wow, your daughter is gorgeous!!My dad, who is *cough* 60 *cough* is praying for a snow day (in Huntsville, AL) so he can go home!! hahahahaha
Wow–snow in Loo-see-ana? That is a big deal. We’ve got it on the ground here in Kansas, too, but that’s normal for here.
I was just in New Orleans and they have that fake stuff on Fulton Street. The kids were soo cute playing in it like they’ve never seen it before. Bet they were really excited for the REAL stuff
This same amount of snow is enough to shut down the city I live in, too. We have snow forecasted for the weekend, though I’ve found that we only get snow when nobody expects it.
Katybeth sure is a cutie.It can not be snow. After allwe have globull warming.According to AL Gore.
Was Al Gore in the area? He’s the environmental version of Sumdood.
A story of mine. I got off of active duty and moved to Ruston to attend college. That April my wife started to tell me that she could “smell” the snow coming. The weather men were predicting rain and freezing rain. I stated that we might see a cold spell but it does not snow in La in April. Well 4 inches later I was eating my words. In my defense I did grow up south of I10 and think it only snowed twice during my youth.Mike
I was raised in S. Luzeana and can remember only one snow. I had been assigned the ole “writing lines” as punishment for something at school (I was helping a friend write her lines during music class, but I was still singing.) Anyway, it was 1,000 long lines. I stayed up late that night and finished them for the next day, a Friday. Woke up the next morning and there was probably about 4-5 inches of snow and guess what, school was canceled. Maybe it has snowed since then but I just don’t have anything to associate it with.
:) Margie
KatyBeth is a doll! Betcha she has dad wrapped around her little fingers, huh?I do kind of feel sorry for the local boys once she gets old enough to date. You’ll probably be meeting them at the door with a shotgun and reminding them of The Bad Things that can happen to boys who take liberties with Daddy’s Little Girl!
That’s a “dusting” of snow. Not even enough for old men to get angina while shoveling.
I have never seen snow here in Western Australia (though I understand they often get on top of tall mountains) We did have a couple of inches of hail once, we pretended that was snow and threw hail balls at eachother..
Cute kid! I always enjoy seeing and hearing reactions from people when it snows in places like Louisiana. Up here, in the Great White North, we need a good six or ten inches before they even think about closing schools.
You want snow? You can have mine. Send me a box, it’ll come back full and then some.
KatyBeth is just too precious. Last year we got a perfect snow here in Mississippi. Enough to cover the ground and gone the next day.
Haha, that’s snow STORM to us here in Australia!
It was 80someodd here today, and you’re further south than I am. There are days I don’t much care for Arizona. I actually had to run my AC today, and most of the days of the past few weeks.
Man, she’s a beautiful kid. Good job!
Great pic of KatyBeth!!! I’ve met you! She must have got all the charm and good looks from Mom! j/kSo this is what we have to look forward to this weekend? I doubt it will ever make it to Atlanta.Glad you all got some snow though. It’s a wonderous sight when you are full of youth!I still remember the glorious BLIZZARD of 1993. We had 6+ft snow drifts after a 20+ inch snow fall. Living on a farm had it’s perks. We drove our large tractor everywhere we needed to go until the county workers could clear roads. Yeah, there’s a Jeff Foxworthy joke in there somewhere.
I heard you had snow down in New Orleans – wow! Great pics of KatyBeth … so adorable
She’s going to remember the fun of playing in the snow and wish it would do this every single winter! I’d be happy to send snow down from Maine every winter … (LOL) Last winter we had 7+ feet of snow in our yard; it was just ridiculous. Enjoy your snow while it lasts!
AD,She’s adorable! and have you chosen your weapon of choice yet for the dating years! Double barrel shotgun with buckshot works well I am told- at least that’s what my spouse is planning to use when our daughter starts dating. And am so glad she got to experience “snow” its feast or famine here in the southern states- I just wish next week would be snow instead of ice!
Twenty years since the last one. My boys were in heaven and and made their first snowman. I did tons of laundry once the power came back on.