Winter is almost over. Let's celebrate! Winter Grouch Try to love winter, they say.Embrace the day!Get off that couch!Stop being a grouch! Ha! What day? I say.The sun is always hard to find,The sky is only white and gray.And night’s not far behind. Short days, long nights,Stupid blinking Christmas lights!Chilly drafts, frozen nose,White frostbitten toes! Take up a winter sport, they say,Then you’ll like winter anyway,Shout, “Hurray, snow day!"And wish for cold to stay. What … [Read more...] about A Poem to Say Good-Bye to Winter
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How I’ve Kept From Being Bored This Winter!
For this blog post I'm writing about several of the activities I've been doing over the past month or two, and just for fun, I'll rate them for you! Cleaning Out My Bookcase Right around New Year's Day, I spent a happy afternoon completely cleaning off my two bookcases and sorting them by genre. I came across books that I haven't read yet but really want to, so it was kind like getting free books! Winter activity rating: A+. Bagel-Making In late January, I got together with a … [Read more...] about How I’ve Kept From Being Bored This Winter!
Snow Stories— Two Broken Bones, a Close Call with a Horse, and a Tulip Snow
We just got our first snow this week, a few inches of pretty, fluffy snow. Living in eastern Pennsylvania, we can usually expect a few measurable snowfalls each winter, nothing too serious. But there's always the chance of something more exciting happening when there's snow, such as the winter both my brother and I had broken bones, or the time I nearly got trampled by a horse on a snowy back road on my way to church. My brother had the first broken bone. After school one day, he and the … [Read more...] about Snow Stories— Two Broken Bones, a Close Call with a Horse, and a Tulip Snow