A Cheeky Kiss from Alaska to Houston – With Love

Day 55 – #100HappyDay Challenge

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Here’s a cheeky kiss from Alaska to Houston, sweeping in with gusto, making my cheeks blush in the chill air, before drifting away, letting the normal Houston sunshine take center stage. Hello, crazy weather!

Today, in Houston, we get to experience the entire winter weather pattern in one day. The thing is, I imagine for most Houstonians, this weather is wrecking havoc since they aren’t use to this white stuff making a morning appearance. It’s one of those times when I’m grateful I can work from home. Just listening to NPR is making me cringe with the number of vehicle accidents being reported. 

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Yes, it was snowing, and now we are experiencing breakup (for those of you who don’t know, breakup is a term we use in Alaska for when the snow melts leaving messy mud and muck for weeks, sometimes months, which is often confused for spring).

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View from my home office – a very familiar sight…just not in Houston!

Its really not that cold. At least not as cold as up North which I am eternally grateful for. You have no idea how tired of shoveling snow off my car I am. I wasn’t blessed with a garage in Anchorage so I spent far too many mornings and evening shoveling snow over the years. Now, to be fair, I didn’t think I would see snow this year in Houston and had just mentioned how happy I was about that very fact. Karma is knocking at my door laughing. 

You know how just recently I posted my excitement over growing my very own tomato? Yeah – I’m pretty sure my tomato and basil plants are toast, that is the frozen-deep-freeze -kind-of-toast-never-to-come-back-kind. I plucked the little guy from the cold blanket of snow and brought him inside… there’s Karma chuckling. But that’s alright. I’m going to make pesto with the basil. The jury is still out on the lone tomato.

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Take that Karma!

Dang, I’d better be careful or the next surprise visit Karma makes may not be as delightful as fresh-brand-new-fallen-snow that disappears in a twinkling of an eye. Because, honestly, there is nothing better than waking up to fresh snow – as long as you don’t have to shovel it.

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Sending you all very, merry, happy thoughts your way for a fun snow day!

Love, April

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