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         ...The temperature was finally dropping enough for the conditions to turn snowy.  Heavy dark clouds crept across the dreary gray skies.  "Got to be loaded with snow," I thought as I eyed the clouds.  Everyone had been expressing relief at not having brutal cold and copious snow like the previous year.  Those same people complained that there was no snow for Christmas. I repeatedly told those same folks that January was coming and with it would come the snow.  I for one still get a thrill with every flake that dares to drop here in Ohio.  It is the first week in January and I am watching our first real snowfall of the season.  It was as though someone had shaken that great snow globe in the sky causing flurries so heavy that I could hardly see across the street.  Yeah!  Now that's what I'm talking about!          The holidays came and went ...

        Was it really half way through December?  Couldn't prove it by me!  There are signs, but Christmas couldn't be that close with it being 70 degrees in Ohio.  People were walking around in shorts and sandals.  I am amused at seeing cut evergreen trees strapped to car roofs while going though fast food drive-thrus.  I am pretty sure sled sales were down this season.  And those ice skates will have to wait awhile, too. I have visions of Santa and his posse of reindeer skateboarding around to get the delivery job done this year. One by-product of all this warm weather is that of copious lighting displays.  Those who would not have gone to the trouble of settee up outdoor holiday lights because it was just too cold, have had a rethink on the subject.  Winter Solstice was December 22nd.  In recent years the snowflake has emerged as the symbol of the solstice.  I have a feeling that ...