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Zaburbs have moved to Condition Orange! Severe Weather Conditions are forecast for Friday, and school may be shortened, or even canceled.

Tell me what is better than a White Christmas? A White Christmas, early, with no school.

Yes folks, up to 1 inch of snow should be falling on us by this time tomorrow. How I wish now that I had given in to the temptation to stock up on hats and gloves from the Target $1 section.

Which brings me to something very much related. Does the whole of America give a simple hoodie the very warm and fluffy sounding monniker “Jacket” ? Or is it just Texas? My children have this type of jacket but that is all they got. Also, no hats or gloves.

One girl-scoutish thing I did do though. I got the furnace checked this fall, for the first time ever. I thought the price was a bit steep but better safe than sorry, after all these things do spew out noxious gases at will if left unchecked. Then, when the technician ascended to the attic to check the thing he announced that the furnace had multiplied. Or invited its friend to the party or something. Our furnace was now two.

And the maintenance bill also. Ouch.

I am smiling about it now though. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

If I had a dollar for every time I have been asked “Why Texas?” I would be on a white sand beach in the Carribean being waited on by bronzed hunky waiters instead of …

…ok…

… you’re right. But I would have a few extra dollars jingling and jangling around in my pocket. Which is why I have been thinking of blogging our reasons for a while.

Today was the perfect day to start. Because today was the day the UK’s Daily Telegraph came up with this:

I shouldn’t really need to say more but just in case some of you are a little slow (or, much more likely, have been drinking), I should point out that today in my neighborhood the temperature reached 95 degrees (35 for you celcius folk) and school isn’t even out yet for summer.

Hold that next thought. We have air conditioning.  And when the sun streams in the windows? It’s nice.