Actually, I think I'm in the wrong song, because the weather outside was actually rather frightfull, but it didn't start out that way... and I was walking in it...

If someone had told me 10 years ago that I would be walking down a densly treed drive with mountains of snow on either side of me, being greeted by people we knew passing us on the street, throwing snow balls off the bridge into the river (and wondered if we could play poohsticks with snowballs instead if sticks), and chatting with my big sister like we were best friends, I would have wondered what they were on... but a few days ago I did just that.

We needed to go down to a little store near by and pick some stuff up, and my sister said "It's a nice day, and a hour or so before it'll get dark, lets walk!"

So we did.

We're walking a long and we noticed that the snow was picking up... eh no big deal, we'll keep walking... and then it picks up some more... and some more... and some more... we can walk! she said it's nice out! she said... humph... last time I listen to my sister ;-)

We started talked about what we'd do if we got stuck, we decided our knitting needles would be put to better use knitting with them (really fast to generate heat) rather than burning them, a fire made out of 10 DP sticks in size 10 and 3 wouldn't do us much good anyway. When we ran out of yarn we could wear what we knitted... or frog it and keep knitting fast, depending on which generated more heat.

We didn't need to put our plan into action though, we managed to make it out to the road fine, though the snow continued to pick up...

At one point a friend passed us on the road, stomped on his breaks, roll down his window and shouted "IT'S TOO COLD TO BE OUT WALKING!". Thank you, we didn't notice :-P

In the end we made it (though somewhat drippy when once we thawed), and got something to drink, and some chips and sat down for a few minutes before calling the house to get someone to pick us up, bytime we made it there through the snow it was getting dark. We Rented a DVD (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - which actually turned out much better than I had hoped btw) and got our ride home...