A Cold Winter Day

I'm sure a couple months ago I wrote a post stating that fall is my favorite season.  I may have been lying.  I know, we shouldn't lie, but fall really is quite lovely.  I think the reason it's my fake favorite is because it leads up to my actual favorite season, Winter! Whoop whoop, yes siree, winter is here my friends! 

We had several snow days last month up here in the far reaches of Northeast Oregon, but two nights ago the temperature dropped drastically and it started snowing.  The freeway was actually closed most of the morning.  My little home sits on a knoll over looking the town, and consequently the freeway.  So I know it's open now, because there's actually traffic going by.  The suns doing it's best to poke through the heavy clouds, but it's all for not because the mercury is telling me it's 25 outside and that's not warm. The winds blowing, as always, so I'm not sure if it's snowing right now or if there's just snow blowing around.  Either way, it's cold and snowing and I couldn't be any happier.  I'll try to refrain from using exclamation marks on every sentence, as I'm want to do. 

Anyone who knows me knows I'm a sleeper.  Pretty much one of my favorite past times is sleeping, or napping, basically I love how the the back of my eyelids look.  I didn't have class today but I had to be at the transmission shop at 9 am.  No sleeping in for this chica.  So I headed out, slid about on icy corners and struggled to see through my frozen windshield which refroze after defrosting.  Don't worry, I made it perfectly safe, and the good news is I Don't need a new transmission yet.  I just know though that, that dang thing is going to wait until the most inopportune time to give up the ghost.  Oh well, being stranded alongside lonely roads is also a lot of fun. 

I have even better news though, by Wednesday it's supposed to drop below 10 degrees every night.  Originally the 10 day weather forecast said that next Wednesday we would have a low of -8.  Can you believe it?! I LOVE IT!!!  It's pretty common here to get a snow early in the winter, get really cold then stay frozen until late May or so.  I remember my first winter here.  I got off work at 10 pm, drove out to feed my horse, and my Chiweenie locked me out of my pickup.  It was grand because the wind was howling, bitter cold and the temperature was barely hovering above 0 degrees.  To top it off I wasn't really dressed for the elements.  Thankfully I had my cell phone in my pocket, so I hunkered down in the front of my trailer while I waited for AAA. Lil'Anne wasn't cold though, I'd left the heater running Haha. 

Really though, Eastern Oregon is awesome, I love the winters, and I love it here.  I had a super productive morning, now I'm drinking coffee and typing.  Fabulous, just fabulous I say!  Here are some pictures from this morning.

Enjoy your day folks, even if it isn't snowing and cold where you are :)

Xo Loves,

Me