A mild winter in Maine? I’m all in. I’m sure we’ll get some big storms eventually, but I’m content right now with rain and the occasional light snow. 20 degrees one day and 45 the next.
When I think back to my winters as a kid, it seemed like we had big piles of snow for months. Maybe the snow banks just looked bigger because I was smaller. Found this picture from the olden days. See my expression. Even then I didn’t look all that excited about snow.
Charlie seems to hanker more for a real winter than me. He misses ice fishing and snowmobiling. Hard to believe he misses plowing, snow blowing, roof raking and shoveling, though.
Anyhoo, here’s a little ditty Charlie wrote a couple weeks ago when we got a little white stuff.
Wacky Winter
Wacky winter, seems to me
Nothing like they used to be
Up ’til now, same refrain:
All we seemed to get was rain
Which would have helped us last July
When it got so hot and dry
It isn’t even, heaven sakes,
Cold enough to freeze the lakes!
So fishing’s out, least for now
And everybody waits to plow
A winter like this? Can’t remember
Spongey ground right through December
Tommy called a week ago
To beef about the lack of snow
“Hey, what kind of winter’s this?”
(To me, he sounded almost pissed)
“Have you been in the woods at all?
Looks the same as in the fall
Trails are bare as they can be
My ski-do’s got nowhere to ski!”
Yeah, says I, snow would be nice
But not us dealing with the ice
“The holidays were weird, it seems
Brown Christmas ain’t the stuff of dreams”
And so we waited, he and I,
And often stared up at the sky
Wond’ring if we’d ever see
Winters like they used to be
But oh, this morning, what a sight!
We got three inches overnight
“Yippee!” we heard some children cry
As the dog and I went by
Mary’s boys were working hard
To build a snowman in the yard
While both her girls were yelling, “Go!”
And diving headlong in the snow
After all them days inside
Those two girls were smiling wide
“Yea!” went Mary, “What a blast!
We finally got some snow at last!”
That’s it for now. Catch you on the flip side!
Hear Ida Tell It: Wacky Winter