Merry Christmas 2025

[Andybev01]

I think that good weather, especially during the winter, makes people want to go out, and you have a destination for them.

[Murfreesboro]

I'm glad you enjoyed your first real tree. Do you think you might do it again next year?

We saw a few flurries today, but our cold front did what they usually do around here-- hours of cold rain with temps in the 40s, followed by frigid air after the rain has pushed through. Our high today is c 34, but it's brilliantly sunny here.

I feel a little cheated when we go through a whole winter with no snow. Usually we do manage to eke out one or two. The verdict is still out on this winter, though.

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

It looks like I spoke too soon, right after I made that post on Thursday it snowed for about 12 hours straight and covered the ground with over a foot of snow, it sucks shoveling that much snow, thankfully I just get my employees to do it.

When I was a kid we always had snow before Christmas, and it was always a guarantee that there would be snow on the ground on Christmas day... that is until 2005, I remember that I woke up that morning and was shocked when I looked out the window and saw for the first time in my life that there wasn't any snow for Christmas, and I couldn't believe it. Of course, since then there have been a few more years when there wasn't any snow here for Christmas and it still feels wrong, like I was in Florida or something.

As for getting a real tree again, that decision is up to the girls, if they want one again then we will get one for them. They really loved the real tree, so they will probably want to get another one this year, though my wife and I are fine with fake trees.

[Murfreesboro]

We're supposed to get a winter storm this weekend, but, as usual, nobody really knows what to expect until it happens. We could get over a foot of snow, or a dusting, or an ice storm. Ice storms are the worst.

I could count on the fingers of one hand the number of white Christmases I've seen in 71 years.

[Murfreesboro]

The most magical white Christmas I've ever seen happened here in Murfreesboro in 2010. My older son and I had gone downtown to attend a midnight service at the Episcopal church. I'd been so busy all day that I'd paid zero attention to weather reports. We entered around 10:30 during our usual cold December weather, but when we exited just after midnight, there was already about four inches of snow on the ground, and it was still falling heavily. It was like a Christmas fairy tale.

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

I know what that's like when you go into a building for a few hours and come out only to be greeted by a snowstorm, it's both frustrating and magical at the same time. That happens frequently around here, it's inconvenient when you have to spend a hour digging your car out of the snow, and then drive on roads and highways that haven't been plowed yet while the winds are still blowing snow in every direction reducing visibility and increasing the possibility of accidents in the storm... not fun.

Millie lived in California for most of her life and she hadn't ever seen snow until she moved here when she was in her 50s, she had grown up watching shows and movies with snow and always wondered what it was really like, she said that when she finally touched snow for the first time it was even better than she imagined it would be. When she turned 70 she decided that she didn't want to deal with the drastic winters here anymore so she moved to Florida where it's always warm, up until a few years ago she would still travel here to visit us during the holidays, and just like she did when we were kids, she would sit by the window to watch while it was snowing and she still had that look of childlike wonder on her face. I don't think she knew that I noticed, but I did.

I have some friends from Jamaica and they told me that the first time they saw real snow they were afraid of it because they thought that they would freeze to death if they were outside for too long.