seize the warm day

There’s a real “carpe diem” aspect to the weather here. All week it didn’t get out of the 50s, and then suddenly, Friday, we were in the 70s. Saturday, it was 80.
Today, it’s snowing. Anybody driving to Vail, a couple of hours west of here, is required to use chains. We’ll get about six inches before we’re done, so they say.
Preparing for winter has been a sport around here. I didn’t get my snow boots bought; that’ll just have to be done tomorrow, in time to stand outside for three hours and sell pumpkins to benefit Habitat for Humanity. They don’t cancel stuff around here, so I’m probably gonna be doing it.
I went to the grocery store today. In North Carolina, whenever inclement weather was coming, I had a friend who would send out this e-mail:
BREAD AND WATER!
MILK AND DIAPERS!
BEER AND VIDEOS!
There were no such runs on any of those things. I bought bread and water and diapers – I passed on the beer and videos, although my husband was at Video One and saw no scares, and I did see a college kid cleaning out the fridges preparing for a big football game. Nobody talked about snow at all. That’s because it happens all the freakin’ time. There’s been snow here in AUGUST, fer Chrissakes.
WELCOME TO COLORADO!