[Sca-cooks] snow

[Sue Clemenger]

*snort* where are you? I guess, having grown up with snow (although not
as much as folks get in the great lakes regions), the idea of _not_
knowing what it is, is completely foreign to me....
--Maire, where we got a foot of snow in one day, just this past June,
and other parts of the state got almost 2 feet
[yeah, that's rare, but it sounds good, doesn't it? ;-P]

Jennifer Thompson wrote:
>
> I noticed someone standing right outside a
> > door, looking
> > up, with a stupified expression on his face. Turns out, he
> > was from Houston,
> > and quite literally had never seen snow before. He *finally*
> > understood what
> > all those books he'd read were talking about; previously, he
> > sort-of-thought
> > they were halfway fictionalizing the stuff.)
> >
>
> You laugh but when we had a freak snow storm last December we all went nuts.
> An inch and a half of snow on my front lawn and my husband rolled with
> laughter when I insisted on making snow angels at midnight. They are really
> dramatic here since the "angel" part is grass surrounded by snow, dark
> against light.
>
> He grew up in Iowa, and had to show me how to make a snowman, since I'd seen
> the Charlie Brown specials and was trying to roll it like a jelly roll. But
> we made a great big one, almost three feet tall!
>
> > Hmmm. Isn't there a dessert confection called Snow? A sort-of
> > custard-like
> > thang?
>
> Stefan's description of it sounded almost like a meringue
>
> Lann, happy in her sauna (we had a low of 69 this morning! Whee! Fall is
> here. Toss me a blanket!)
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