artbyakm2183's Blog

Well here we go again with the "wintery mix" on thursday! Boy I am feeling it! My head is pounding!!! I get headaches when fronts come in, so heres hoping that my headache is a sign that this will be hitting!!!

Seeing how thursday is my birthday I am praying that I will get my biggest birthday wish... SNOW not just a wet mess! Though I do feel like all these wintery mixes are a big tease to what we could have I am thankful for anything! I wonder why we go through some years that are abundant in snow or winter weather in general and other years it is barely a flake of snow to be seen? I suppose that the mountains play a part in it and the right weather system would have to come into play, but are there any other reasons that we are a big dry spot in the winter weather department year after year?

I still say I am going to get a summer home in Alaska when I become a big artist and get rich lol ! I will always be here for spring and fall though, I do love the cooler temps and all the colors of those two seasons. I am just not a summer girl , it is way to hot for me! I remember the one year I was in Ohio and it was 90 degrees and 10% humidity, it was warm but not over bareing. I thought about the difference in how 90 degrees felt there and how it felt here... I thought it was interesting how much cooler it felt !

I love weather, as soon as a storm is approaching I am glued to the TV and watching out the window. i will never forget the time I was watching the weather report on Fox 8 and Van I think was showing a pan view of the city. As he panned he came to a wall cloud and was saying where it was, I asked my mother, who was standing outside, where that was and she looked up in the sky and said "Over our heads"!! Sure enough I walked out side and looked up there it was... a big orangey grey swirling cloud! I was freaked and amazed all at once, I had never come so close to seeing one and here it was above my head! Thankfully nothing ever dropped down out of it but it was the most amazing thing i had ever seen... well aside from the "oak tree" lightening I seen in Ohio one year that caused me to jump and run and step on a piece of glass! That was the other time that I came close to a tornado, but I never seen anything I only heard about it and then seen the damages as I weaved this way and that around tree branches in the road and looked at the pitch black sky as it was moving away!

Other then the wall cloud the most amazing thing I have seen around here is our creek go from almost nothing to a river! The one time It over flowed so bad that there was a waterfall.. that was due to a clog though. We have also had to push a car out of the water before...there was only an inch of water in the car and we were up to our knees in water...we managed to push it out. I know they say stay out of it, but if you seen the area I am talking about it wasn't like I was going to get very far should I have been wisked away in it...lol. The one thing I find kind of funny is how people act so different to the water in the road in front of our house, you have to cross it to get to our driveway so I have a really good veiw of it. But some people creep slowly across it, others stop and wait before deciding to cross it and other zoom right through it as though it wasn't there! I usually stop for a second if it is high enough to make sure that the man hole cover has not popped off, and it has been known to do that. but other then that it is the one place I know that I can cross water and be safe! I have experience from when I lived and visited Ohio, there is this beautiful park in the middle of the city I grew up in, all based around the black river. There is a ford in the middle of the park that does overflow, and because of that sometimes it is closed off, but there have been times when the water was over it but not so high they closed it that we could drive over it in the water... talk about a neat thing for a kid. It felt like we were on a boat crossing the river. I loved the place and to this day when I visit my home town I go to this park. It is So very pretty and when you are in it you forget that you are smack dead in the middle of a city! so many trees and large boulders! I will have to post some pictures one day on here to share that with all of you! If you are ever in Elyria Ohio ask about Cascade park!