A Shame the Snow Has Gone

I still enjoy a few days of snow every winter.  It makes a change from the boring grey drab landscape.

My late mother never understand why we as children were exited by the snow.  She hated snow and repeatedly described her childhood in prewar Poland.  How there, when it started snowing in November, it didn't melt completely until April.  Every winter they had large snowdrifts.  And nobody made a fuss, they just cleared the snow and got on with life.  She found it incredible that here after a couple of inches. Roads were blocked, schools were shut and all the fuss.  Back in her childhood after a heavy overnight snowfall of two or three feet. Families dug themselves out, made paths and walked on top of the snow like normal.

What she found unusual was the way here lying snow only lasted a few days.  Then it snows again a month later, melts after a few days.  Weird!  

Did she miss it - real snow, I mean, the kind you can play in and simply brush off your clothes? If you know that from childhood it seems to bring back memories of a lot of happiness for most people.

My mother hated snow and often described her worst experiences of coping with severe weather.  Down to -30C people coped. Houses were well insulated and people wore extra clothes. Any colder and ..........️

How her village shared a church with a neighboring village.  And her mother was very religious and insisted on going to church every Sunday.  One very severe winter in the 1930s her mother was determined to go to church ( in the next village).  My grandfather and the other children refused because it was just too cold and the snow too deep.  

So just the two of them set out. They arrived after a two hour struggle thru the snow at the church which was freezing cold. There was nobody from her village, only about ten people from the other village.  And the service was very short.

They almost died in the snow getting home.

Afterwards my mother was ill in bed for weeks with a temperature and fever.  My grandmother never recovered her health and had a cough for the rest of her short life.

And she hated snow for the rest of her life.

Well, that's good then! I'm just getting a little concerned when 'never' and 'always' are used, they seem to lead to arguments easily.

I'm replying to my own post because the others have disappeared for me too...

My posts go missing from time to time.

Yeah, I’m still here :-) 

Um... okay, you are online and so thus far I am also still that way...? For the records, now, as I see this reply, I cannot see my own first answer, from which the second answer Quoted -!!!!!

I may attempt direction to this at WebPM later, yet for now, I shall discontinue here, and try to go to the "Love" Thread. (Do not get your hopes up too much, I must warn you, however...) 

Yes, I would love you to do that DC and yes, I too find the missing post by pressing the ‘newest’ button as Robert or someone mentioned previously. 

Maybe it’s all us that are mad and not the website! Lol! Do all of us lose posts etc or only some of us? 

Disambiguating Cynosure said:

To BlueRay, when I find the looong Post I saw, then I intend to answer you. It was incredibly lucid and I thank you for it. Yet I must leave off for now...

...Look at that! I had to close the Thread and open it from the Top, and I finally found it again, and can quote myself from before. This Forum is Mad mad mad...

*ahem* Regardless of that... this is what I meant to say, Miss BlueRay...:

I have "Liked" your Post, there, and it confirms a certain aspect or attribute which I am curious about. It may begin a whole new Thread by itself, and so I do not mention it here, yet shall continue upon one of your own other Threads, if you do not mind...?

The "LOVE" Thread.... Link to follow:

BlueRay's "Love" Thread (out of many others(!)):

community.autism.org.uk/.../

Yeah, it seems like two of my posts have disappeared. One in which I reassured oktanol that we were most definitely not arguing, not in the least. I love all of your comments and our conversations. 

This might be another case of the missing posts! 

To Oktanol... It is alright, do not worry. I Posted what I did out of a certain curiosity concerning Miss BlueRay's approaches to matters expressed, and there was here a Looong Post which was excellent --- but then right now I cannot see it (!) as I type this... 

To BlueRay, when I find the looong Post I saw, then I intend to answer you. It was incredibly lucid and I thank you for it. Yet I must leave off for now...

I’m not arguing Oktanol and DC isn’t arguing (I don’t think she is anyway, but then I probably wouldn’t know anyway but I don’t think she is). She’s expressing her thoughts which I deeply appreciate. So don’t worry Oktanol we’re not arguing but I appreciate your input very much and if it ever does appear again that I’m arguing, whether I am or not (you can’t always tell) please please please tell me because I really appreciate this group and you guys so I do not want to lose any of you through an argument. 

And thank you for the picture of the beautiful dancing snow flakes ~ I caught it ;) they’re beautiful and more than enough to stop any argument in its track. Thank you. 

Thank you  ️ 

I’m not arguing Oktanol and DC isn’t arguing (I don’t think she is anyway, but then I probably wouldn’t know anyway but I don’t think she is). She’s expressing her thoughts which I deeply appreciate. So don’t worry Oktanol we’re not arguing but I appreciate your input very much and if it ever does appear again that I’m arguing, whether I am or not (you can’t always tell) please please please tell me because I really appreciate this group and you guys so I do not want to lose any of you through an argument. 

And thank you for the picture of the beautiful dancing snow flakes ~ I caught it ;) they’re beautiful and more than enough to stop any argument in its track. Thank you. 

Thank you  ️