We got some winter finally, dudes. Ever since I started seriosuly blogging on ES.com back in 2004, and even before that, I have bitched at length about the pussified winters we have had of late. This year though, even with the snow being late to arrive. the chilly teps set in early enough to get the ground frozen and allow any snow we do get to stick around. You know, like the six or so inches we got this past weekend and the three more due to us today and tonight.

Why am I so gung-ho about winter? I'm glad you asked: I'm driven by the need for a Norman Rockwell Christmas setting and that is something that has been seriously lacking here the past few years, especially with the way it has been secularized. Now, I'm not about to go all Bill O'Reilly war-on-Christmas on you, because that's just nonsense, as well as ignorant. But it is nice to go into a store or a mall now, and see and hear "Merry Christmas" alongside "Happy Holidays" as well as hearing songs about Christ's birth instead of just Santa and commercialism.

One favor, guys: remind me of this post on like four months when I get sick of snow and cold. Kay, thanks.

Labels: christmas, local, personal, weather