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I have no dreams of a white Christmas

9/29/2022

Anybody can click one pic without breaking a sweat.

Red Rose. Its looking a little long in the tooth, but so is all the other flowers around here

Another beautiful Fall day in Denver, mid-70s in the daytime, 50s at night, low humidity, the perfect time to be in Colorado. Unfortunately, it doesn't last long, and the great weather is just a warning that snow and cold are on the way.

But there are a few people that look forward to weather like that. The skiers and the snowboarder's Colorado dream is to have many ski resorts open by Thanksgiving, which they often are. So they can drive through dangerous mountain passes covered in snow and ice hopefully before the next avalanche wipes it off the face of the earth, so they can suffer frostbite while enjoying a semi-controlled fall down a mountain of snow with a board or two tied to their feet, Dodging trees at 50 miles an hour.... In nature, it's known as Natural Selection.

I dabbled in skiing briefly when I moved to Colorado but quickly determined that due to my decades of living in Miami, Florida, I had lost whatever abilities I ever had to deal with below-zero temperatures and more snow than it takes to make a snow cone. And over time, that morphed into me never wanting to see snow again in any form, including snow cones and spending my winters far enough south that snow is an oddity that you have to run outside and take a quick picture of before it melts.

So spare me the black diamond ski runs, the dreams of a white Christmas, and Jack Frost nipping at my nose. Instead, put me boondocking at the base of a desert mountain, a few Saguaro's scattered about, a humidity of zero percent, and I'm in Heaven.

Theboondork

8 Comments

OFM

9/29/2022 07:38:41 pm

I much prefer Christmas weather to be bikini time at the Gulf beaches along the Texas coast.

Tom

9/29/2022 08:21:39 pm

Me to, I'd much rather see pictures of snow at Christmas than actually have to get outside and deal with it. And unfortunately for me Christmas has just become another holiday that I have to hunker down for a little over a week to be able to totally avoid the Christmas rush and New Year's.

Tom

JUDITH

9/29/2022 07:47:39 pm

Actually in the high 50's by dawn here too. A great thing!! Low 90's in the daytime, which is quite acceptable, but not desirable. Hope everybody is feeling better up there.

9/29/2022 08:26:00 pm

Yeah, I can take almost any daytime temperature as long as it's chilly at night. It sounds like it's getting close to having some Fall weather where you're at if it's getting down to the 50s at night, and that sounds quite acceptable to me to.

Tom

Larry Worsham

9/30/2022 05:14:53 am

I whole heartedly agree with you regarding snow. I once worked near Crater Lake Oregon (15 ft. of snow) and learned to hate snow and cold winter weather. In an outdoor job. I tried to ski once and determined it was invented by the red chinese to create pain and compliance.

My grandsons dream of snow every winter. It's curious how kids love it and the older one gets you want to avoid it. Experience is the best teacher.

Unfortunately I am starting to feel that way about the heat and humidity of Central Texas.

Oh well its time to get on the road again..................

Safe Travels

9/30/2022 08:52:28 am

Yeah I think kids like snow because it's a big white playground that covers the yard. But the older you get the more work and a threat to safety it becomes. And when some old folks start losing their balance, and toppling over for little or no reason, ice and snow gives them a real reason for falling over and they might end up with a broken hip in less they move to a place where there's more sand than snow... Although the Florida West Coast has probably been scratched off a lot of old geezers favorite places to live list.

Tom

Linda

9/30/2022 11:38:26 am

As a young adult I tried downhill skiing once but the only part I enjoyed was the rope tow up the bunny hill. I preferred cross-country skiing on the local golf course where the hills were smaller. Now that I no longer go south, I prefer to see winter through our huge windows.

9/30/2022 12:12:23 pm

I was once on a bunny slope like that with a rope-tow, it was in Gatlinburg Tennessee probably in the 1970s. One of the few places you can snow ski in the South.

Yeah, the best thing that ever happened to snow was the invention of windows

Tom

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