MWM -
I love snow - unfortunately we get very little if ever here in SC.
As far as the whatchamacallit? I have a small story from when I was younger.
When I was 6 years old I was burned severely. I survived 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree burns over 65% of my body. In some places you could just see muscle, no skin.
I was rushed to the hospital after my Mother had quickly thrown me in a tub of cold water - Father had left for work and Mother had called the neighbor to drive us to the hospital.
When we got there, they cut off my polyester shirt and tried to pull my wool pants off but the skin had melted to parts of my clothes. I was in so much pain, I fell asleep. I awoke in the children's ward naked by lying in a hammock fashioned from gauze and tied to the headboard and makeshift foot board. I hurt, I cried, I had blisters wider than my body.
I spent a year in the children's ward - the blisters had subsided, and I was left with horribly scarred skin. I wasn't to be in direct sunlight for 10 years after leaving or I would have marks for life on my the right side of my body.
I had tried to be a big girl - and help myself to a bowl of cereal while Mother was vacuuming. My socks slid on the porcelain top of the stove and I brought a restaurant style coffee pot and it's boiling hot contents on top of me and we all fell to a heap on the floor.
When I was allowed to leave the hospital - it was raining. Overcast blue grey skies, so lovely and as Mother rushed to cover my head with an umbrella I asked "Please, just let the rain hit my face, I've missed it so much." and she did. Ever since that day - I've rarely used umbrellas, and love overcast, rainy days.
So the next time it rains - look at it. Look up at it and let it hit your face because you never know when your face will feel rain again.
Who would have ever thought in my lifetime we would have to wonder how long it will be between rains? So when it rains - I enjoy it.
