Ashtabula Snow Days Continued.

Pax Christi! Any and Everyone,
Here we are in the frozen North (Northeast Ohio that is). Speaking with friends in Southwest Ohio did give me warm sense kinship to hear that they were getting snow. Misery does love company, don’t ya know?

It’s strange how you can acclimate to the cold. It got up to a balmy 28º F and it almost felt like sweater weather, although it is back to frigid 6º F with a wind chill that would make unprotected body parts fall off. We are getting about 10 inches of cold blowing snow right now. Even students are getting tired of the weather and not getting to school. They are missing their friends, parties, after school activities and field trips. The little guys are exhausted from the effort needed to put on all that clothing, plus they look like multicolored ticks as they plod and clomp their boots out to the buses or walk home.

The older students find it hard to look cool when they are freezing. How do you impress the opposite sex when they can’t even see it’s you? The Jr. High kids hate having to stand inside the school doors to wait for the buses, but hate having to stand outside the doors to wait for the buses and ice over. Come to think of it, such confused emotions must seem normal for many of those young folks. Yes; not; do; not; will; won’t; like; love; lust; hate, all felt in the span of about 5 to 6 ……. minutes. What’s a little freezing with a day like that?

The poor Jack Russell terrorists get lost in the drifts when they are forced outside to "do that thing". They don't have to be called twice to come back in.

May God grant you the peace your heart is searching for.