O'Rourke

Well, it's not exactly Telluride, but when you live in the south east Houston area, you take what you can get. It snowed tonight for the first time since Christmas Eve, 2004. And even that is like yesterday, in terms of how often it snows down here.  According to the Weather Research center, it's snowed in Houston 16 times since I was born, and only 4 times since I moved here in 1990.

The best thing about this time is that all the girls are old enough to remember it. They had a great time running around, making snowballs, and catching snow flakes. We even made a small snowman. We felt like major Scrooges, making the girls come in and get ready for bed. I promised the girls we'd save the snowman's head in the freezer. Mike says we should call him Ted Williams. Now I need a very small Red Sox cap.

It's supposed to keep snowing until about 3am. Hope it's still on the ground when we wake up.

 Like before, click on one of the pictures if you want to see some more.