Sticky, no sticky

Well... we received snow last night and boy is it heavy snow! All the branches are bowing down with the weight of it. I am very glad we aren't in a power outage! It has been worse before.

It's a very pretty snow too. There is about three inches on top of the garden shed in the back yard. And a couple inches clinging to all the branches on the trees and lilac bushes, making them all very thick and fluffy. Everything is supremely white.

It won't last all that long, as it is a very wet snow. I have always found that the adage in one of the "Little House" books was pretty true. My grandfather always told it to me like this: (of snow) "Sticky, no sticky; no sticky, sticky." In other words, if the snow is heavy and wet, it won't stick around, but if it is a dry powdery snow, it will likely stick around for a while.

This little snow will be good for business where I work. We had snow here in October, which was actually quite unseasonal. It caused a rush on winter apparel, and we ran right out, as I had only started ordering up on the cold catagories, and as a result it took the better part of five days to get back instock. I had been planning for the first real snow to come about this time of year.

Next year, I will have to try harder to find a wooly bear caterpillar to see what the weather will be like!

No new theories about Harry Potter today. I am still going to post something that shows Minnie McG's treachery.... My kids, on the other hand, get upset with me when I talk too much about Hagrid. Do I "think" she will make Hagrid evil? I dunno... She did say she would invite him to dinner with the {fundamentalists} who say her books are evil. I guess the connotation is that he is big and they would be too scared to talk about him. OR, he is soooo sweet that they would see the error of their ways. OR... (this is my thought, due to her tone of voice and the laugh she gave when she said this)... Hagrid is really the Enforcer, and he would make sure they shut up. :-)

So no.. Until someone adequately can explain in canon how Hagrid found Godric's Hollow, and why it took so long to go get that baby... or where they were in the meantime... I will see duplicity with Dumbledore and Hagrid.

How did Minerva know where to go to wait for Dumbledore? He wasn't too surprised to see her, but you can tell it wasn't planned. She didn't know when they would get there, as she was there from quite early in the morning, before Vernon even left for work. How did she know where Lily's sister lived? Why would you leave the savior of your world on a doorstep? Left to the fates? At the very least, I would have expected Minerva to sit the rest of the night watching over him, until they found him in the morning. What an irresponsible way to treat a fifteen month old baby!! *shakes head*

Ok.. this was about Snow though... ... so on that note.. I will leave you to ponder all things white.