White??? Christmas

"White"???? Christmas
We are on our way to having the first “brown” or “green” Christmas in the Northland since 1979. The snow storm that was heading this way from the west was supposed to give us snow this morning, but it fizzled out before it reached us, and we’ve had no snow all day. It will mean dry roads for traveling, which will be good, since many people travel over the holidays, including us. We will be leaving tomorrow morning for Hudson, WI to spend Christmas with our daughter and her family. We will return home on Monday. I’m hoping since it didn’t snow yet, that it holds off until Tuesday now. Also, when it’s this warm, we sometimes get icy, rain and sleet, and we certainly don’t want that for driving, we’d rather have the snowy roads. I also heard the weather man say that this is only the 4th Christmas in Duluth’s history that there is not snow on the ground! That’s something! Who would have thought that on December 22, we would be going to a restaurant to celebrate a friend's wedding, and not be wearing a coat, and not not even being cold walking to the car without a coat! It used to be that we had below zero temperatures the weeks leading up to Christmas and during the holidays. We would especially have the sub zero temps if we didn't have snow! Now, warm temps, no snow and no sub zero weather. Very strange indeed. I don't think we have to doubt that there is indeed, global warming!