Life before 2008 13 Feb 2006 09:17 am
Action verbs for snow, courtesey of my friend Sarah:
Snow floats
Snow flurries
Snow gropples (this one we learned in Iowa. “Gropple” is that hard, pellet kind of snow.)
Snow spits (This was one of my father’s favorite weather descriptions. “What’s the weather like today, Dad?” Dad: “It’s spitting snow.”)
Snow drops (that’s the big, wet snow)
Snow blankets (don’t see much of that here in Tennessee, but we sure did in Iowa!)
Snow dances
And my new favorite that I heard in church today: “Well, Ah looked artside and I seed them chicken feathers spinnin’ down and Ah didn’t think Ah would make it this mornin’.”
How appropo! Chicken feathers indeed! Yesterday’s snows looked just like the down from pillows. I kept rooting for them to band together. Alas, we have just brown mud and ice today though I bet we had at least 5 inches fall from the sky.
on 13 Feb 2006 at 10:31 am 1.Bannergranny said …
Chicken feathers how wonderful….what a great discription! Have a wonerful day.