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10/17/2006 03:14 PM Filed in: Personal

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I woke up early, brushed my teeth, looked outside, and dropped my jaw.  It was October, early October at that, and...it was snowing.  Dorothy, we are not in Texas anymore.

I knew this was coming, but I was thinking mid- to late-Novemberish.  Growing up in the Dallas area, you really only expect to see snow about two or three days out of the year at most, so I know this is going to be a change for us.  

The good news?  Emily’s family has a tradition where her grandma makes homemade doughnuts at the first snowfall every year.  Since we’re a long way from home, Emily called her grandmother to get the recipe and then made a LOT of doughnuts that night; probably 45 in all.  No wonder her grandmother always has the whole family over-it’s a BIG recipe!

I’m currently trying to change the tradition from doughnuts at the first snowfall to doughnuts at every snowfall.  That way we can finish the winter up 20% happier and 45 pounds heavier.

God bless doughnuts...

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Texas People and (Semi) Cold Weather

01/26/2006 05:26 AM Filed in: Humor
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II know what doesn’t happen in Chicago or Denver or Kansas City when it’s 35 degrees outside and there’s a light snow.  I know they don’t close the roads down, shut down the schools, and cancel church services.

Here in Texas, however, we don’t quite have our cold weather act together.  Every time the temperature drops below sixty I see men, women and children bundling up like they’re going out of the atmosphere. Read More...

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