Baby, it's cold outside....

There’s a storm brewing.....well, I guess it’s already brewed ‘way north of here ‘n it’s on the move, headed this direction....gonna have some rain ‘n snow, maybe even snow down here on the valley floor...now, that don’t happen often....I was trying to recall the last time I saw snow here in Ol Fair Oaks ‘n I can’t....I remember back in the late ‘90’s that I saw blowing snow over in Roseville but none here in Fair Oaks....anyways, it’s beginning to feel a little bit Christmasy partly due to the weather turning cold ‘n I guess, partly due to putting up the Christmas lights ‘n the Christmas tree...Millyrose always wanted to put the tree up early while I always wanted to wait until Christmas Eve so we compromised....I refused to put the tree up until after Thanksgiving ‘n Millyrose is OK with that.....anyhow, if it snows here, we’re all set to go....I was watching the weather channel ‘n it looks like snow ‘n cold over most of the USA... prob’ly gonna be a white Christmas for much of the country.....
Y’know, I’ve never had a white Christmas....once as I recall, it was a cold Christmas day ‘n we were getting ready to go to my G’parents for dinner and it began to snow....not those big soft flakes that are so pretty to watch but those hard little pellets that fly thru the air ‘n sting when they hit you in the face....ah well, that was my ‘white Christmas’ such as it was....snow pellets flying in the frosty air.....
Christmas of 1955, I was in hospital in Cheyenne, Wyoming with strep throat ‘n there was a lot of snow on the ground ‘n promise of much more ‘n if I didn’t get out of the hospital in time for Christmas leave, I was bound to spend the holiday in a drafty barracks....so I did what any red-blooded American boy ‘ud do....I lied ‘n said, “I feel great.” Anyways, they let me out ‘n I got my Christmas leave, got on a slow train ‘n headed for Kentucky....Christmas that year of 1955 was warm ‘n balmy....drive around with the windows down on the car warm ‘n balmy....’n I was told when I got back to Ft. Warren that it had been unseasonably warm ‘n sunny in southern Wyoming....I dunno, but it snowed the very next day with the temperature dropping below zero...
So I kind’a like my white Christmas the old fashioned way....on the teevee with der Bingle ‘n Danny Kaye.... Actually, I prefer Holiday Inn with Crosby ‘n Astaire but that’s a personal thing.....anyways, here’s wishing ev’ryone whatever kind of Christmas they want.....