Hi ho, hi ho...

It's off to work I go. Yet another week of covering for M. The cougar cub is still there! R must be going crazy, but RG was injured and couldn't take the cub down to her. So another day of trying to get him to take the bottle. Because he is weaning himself, he flips the nipple and gets milk all over me. While I sit there in my milk bath grinning like an idiot.

Pray for sunshine and warmth. If it was like last week, M is going to be a girlcycle. Dang, it was cold! The frost was so heavy it looked like it had snowed. I've been dreaming about snow ever since. Snow like when I was a kid, fat fluffy flakes slooowly drifting down out of an almost clear blue sky. The kind of snow that when you are a kid, you have to be out in. The kind of snow that when you are an adult, you curl up nice and warm by the window with a cup of cocoa with marshhmallow in it and watch the snow drift. Most any age, you have to go out at least once to catch a snowflake on your tongue.

We used to make chocolate snow ice cream. It was just powdered Quick stirred in, but it was wonderful. I'm not sure it was the taste that was so wonderful, it was actually pretty wimpy. But snow tastes like nothing else. It tastes of freedom and wind and sky.

It doesn't snow like that here, ever. I'm not sure it ever snows like that in a city either. It certainly never did while we lived in one. Maybe the snow is too tired by the time it has battled all that polution to get to the ground.

I hope it snows once this winter. I wish for fluffy compound flakes that drift like feathers, and stay soft for days. I want a few days of pristine snow, except for rabbit tracks and little bird prints. I want to drag my old bones out and make snow angels, even if I have to be helped up! I want to see the cats go crazy, trying to catch all the snowflakes that hit the window panes. I want a bright blue sky. I want to snuggle with my sweetheart and feel smug.

I don't want to be a child again, I never do. Sometimes however, I want the things I loved from childhood. I think I would enjoy them even more now.