Dashing through the snow…

Today, this first day of December, it is SNOWING in Seattle!!

WHOOPEE!

I decide that, what with all the snow and all, we MUST get our Christmas tree.

Now our typical plan involves driving out to the “country” and cutting down a tree at a tree farm. But roads are bad and crazy-old-me has this romantic notion of WALKING to get our tree in the GENTLY FALLING SNOW.

It will be just like days of YORE!

(I feel a Fa-la-la coming on)

Lucky for us there’s an elementary school just a few blocks away where the PTA has set up a tree farm. So we get on our winter clothes… sort of. I forget my gloves and Jay is wearing a thin Santa hat and fleece jacket. But hey, it’s the first snow of the year! We can’t be expected to remember how to dress!

We skip down the sidewalk, enjoying the huge fluffy flakes patting our cheeks.

THUD! CJ hits me with a snowball. Well, really it’s more of a DIRT ball with a tiny bit of snow mixed in. But I don’t mind. It’s SNOWING!

Here’s the thing about getting a Christmas tree in the snow, romantic as the notion may be. There are some BASIC FACTS of snow-physics and tree-carrying that I neglected to take into consideration.

First of all, trees are HEAVY. Secondly I am WEAK and WIMPY, and Thirdly I am not wearing gloves. Hence, Jay gets the privilege of man-handling the rather large tree down the sidewalk.

(He is so MANLY with the MAN-HANDLING!)

Now the next thing that slipped my mind is that snow, beauteous and joyful though it may be, has a nasty little habit of falling onto your glasses and making it nearly impossible to see.

(it’s hard to be a nerd)

Also, it tends to fall down your neck where it’s COLD and MELTY. This is not a pleasant thing.

Additionally, snow melts on your jeans, leaving you with WET JEANS, which inevitably leads to COLD LEGS.

Cold legs, wet glasses, freezing fingers, and hauling a heavy tree through the streets of Seattle while SOMEONE takes pictures makes Jay an unhappy boy.

But I tend to believe that it’s ALL WORTH IT IN THE END.

Of course, that’s exactly the kind of attitude that gets me in trouble in the first place.

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