Busy Night

[poliphilo]

I woke in the night and there seemed to be more light than usual coming in through the window, so I looked out and we had snow- a complete covering of snow. Isn't it magical how it can fall for hours and you don't hear a thing? I went back to bed and found myself trying to remember the words of "O Little Town of Bethlehem"- a hymn which doesn't actually mention snow but seems to imply it.   "Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by." That's a snowscape surely!  "How silently, how silently, the wondrous gift is given." Can't you just see it drifting down?

Later I was woken by Sameena next door shouting at the baby. He cries a lot and she was reproaching him for keeping her awake.  "That won't work" I thought, but apparently it did, because we didn't hear another sound.

Well, not from him- but the rabbits have been moving furniture all night long and are still at it this morning. I tidied their room yesterday and they've been getting it back the way they want it. 

The snow's still falling by fits and starts. Maybe I'll go out later with the camera and shoot some Christmassy views.

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

People who live with constant snow in winter complain about the problems it causes but I miss it so much having grown up in Michigan and getting all the lake effect snow. "O Little Town..." has ALWAYS meant snow and white Christmases to me ever since I was very small.

Way down here in southern Spain I see snow in my dreams sometimes.

Your bunnies really move the furniture around?

[mamarose.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Michigan, too. They don't get the snow they used to, back in the 80s or even into the 90s.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I'm from Grand Rapids but have probably spent more time in East Lansing. You?

The snowfalls of my childhood were REALLY snowfalls.
:)

[mamarose.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Ann Arbor, but went to MSU for a few years. I have family in GR, and scattered throughout the state to Detroit and north into the UP.

GR and the west coast still get lake effect snows, but they don't stay like they used to. I remember a time about 12 or 14 years ago when I was in GR for Christmas as we got over 3 feet of snow in one evening. I don't think even the lake effect snow is like that anymore.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I exaggerate slightly- but they do have very definite ideas about where things should be.

They have a big cardboard box in there that serves as their burrow. What they were doing last night was knawing themselves a new entrance/exit.