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It’s a snow day today in the Ozarks. This is the first snow we’ve had this winter and everyone is excited. Motherhubbard’s kids are out sledding and playing in the snow. My grandson is outside making snow angels and my son is going to come over after work and play outside in the snow with him. Dan took my vehicle to work because it has 4 wheel drive and dropped our son off at his work and our daughter off at her work. All the County offices are closed and Dan is the only one in his building but it’s silly for him to come home then go back for our daughter. You northern folks will laugh, but we only have about 4 inches of snow. We are supposed to get the heavier stuff later this afternoon. We don’t have the road clearing equipment here that larger cities or the northern folks have. And they don’t grade the snow off the back roads when there’s only one family in five miles or so Plus we have very curvy and hilly roads. School buses can’t travel on them when there is even a little snow or ice.. Our hills and cedars are so beautiful covered with snow. I always think of the St. Patrick’s Day snow of 1988 when it snows. We got 27 inches of heavy, wet snow. The whole area shut down for days. We couldn’t get our front door open for four days and the Guard had to drop supplies to the folks living way out from a helicopter. All our snow should be gone by tomorrow night…it’s supposed to be in the 40’s. As long as it doesn’t freeze tonight we’ll be in good shape. . But it’s pretty right now and our kids get to play and get a day off and I can watch from the window and everyone gets at least part of the day off.