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First Snowfall
Topic Started: Nov 10 2006, 10:00 AM (107 Views)
Jamie
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Felt a little reflective earlier the week, and wrote this. I tried posting on Wednesday, but TNCR was having some sort of posting issues then, so I gave it up.

I'm not around much these days I know...work and home keeping me very busy.
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She didn’t quite know what to make of it.

Every year, at the first snowfall, she never quite knows what to make of it.

As shortly afterwards I drove to work on Monday morning after the first dusting of snow for the year lay settled on rooftops and lawns and car hoods, I saw a kid waiting for his Mom to unlock the car in the driveway. Instinctively, he knew what to make of it. He immediately gathered up some of the snow on the hood of the car, shoving it together into a fist size weapon, and threw it at his mother, hitting her square in the arm as she was balancing her briefcase, lunch and keys in the lock of her front door, trying to leave the house.

It’s the first thing I remember doing as a child on the first snowfall, either that (making a snowball and trying your best to bean your best friend), or erecting that time honored statuette on your front lawn, as a symbol to all passers by that at least, at this house, winter had officially arrived.

But for her, as she stepped gingerly over the threshold the door out on to the patio at the back of the house as I let her out at first light, shaking snow off her paw with each step, there was nothing instinctive about this.

She’s looked at the strange white little invaders from the early morning sky. She made her way across the deck, reaching sanctuary in the shade of the barbeque cover, sat back on her haunches and looked. I couldn’t help but wonder what was going through her little feline mind. These aren’t mice, or moths, or any of the other moving objects she’s spent the last six months eagerly engaging in what was literally a cat and mouse affair on our …pardon me … her domain.

She seemed to follow each snowflake from its initial point of appearance in the sky to its samurai like impact with the deck, and another, and another. Like a World War II film documentary. Must’ve seemed very strange to her, to watch something just fall, and then do nothing.

Kinda like what my teenage boys do when they arrive home – fall and do nothing.

I closed the door and left her to fend for herself, as I get breakfast and get ready for work. As I’m scraping white lather from my face, I see the foamy white in the bathroom mirror, and am suddenly struck with fear of realizing that our poor tailless little creature has been left to fend for herself against the invading white mob for …what must it be.. ten minutes or more now. I wonder how the battle is progressing.

As I quickly finish up and return to the back door, wails of what I perceive to be absolute terror are resounding throughout the neighborhood. The source of which seems to be at the back door. But when I open it, in she nonchalantly steps, with a few of the frozen enemy hitching a ride on her back.

Not much to it after all, seems to be her thought, now what’s here to eat?

Jamie
Rudy - September 1, 1998 - April 8, 2009... One awesome dog
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Cathys
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Jamie,
Very nice; One of my favorite things, when we had dogs was to watch there reaction to the first snow:). Certainly brought back some memories and makes me a bit homesick.

Cathy
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taiwan_girl
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Very well written. :thumb:

I can imagine the scene in my mind.
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