{"id":230,"date":"2021-03-13T13:35:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T22:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=230"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:13:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:13:22","slug":"the-weather-gods-have-a-sense-of-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"The weather gods have a sense of humor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, sometimes it <em>does <\/em>snow in Southeast Alaska, despite what I have been saying these many years. I went out this morning to dig out my mother-in-law\u2019s van, scraping wet-cement-style snow, until my nephew, as kind as he is strong,  came from down the street to help. I was scraping as loudly as possible, so maybe he heard the noise. I had already taken my hat off, so my sad gray hair would show, but this strategy had not summoned any neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I keep thinking about another mid-March madness, way on back in 1966 in Virginia. I was in first grade that year, and we had a springtime dump like the one I\u2019m experiencing now. At that time we built a huge igloo in the side yard and may or may not have actually camped out in there. Somewhere, there is a black and white picture of me in my striped stocking hat that my mother knitted, eating a wad of snow, sitting in the mouth of our homemade cave. School was cancelled for many days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then there was that time in Richmond, Va, when I was just out of high school and living in my very first apartment. We had another huge spring snowfall, and <em>everybody <\/em>was in the ditch. My car, like everybody else\u2019s, had summer tires, so nobody was going anywhere. There aren\u2019t many snowplows in Richmond. My friend Alice and I went out to a small park in the Fan District and built a magnificent snow sculpture. We created a buxom lady, with big hair, holding up the skirt of her madam-style dress to show one gorgeous leg. That sculpture made the paper; someday I might come across the picture again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This snow is exactly right for sculpting. Maybe I&#8217;ll get inspired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-1-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231\" width=\"592\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-1-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-1-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-1-1536x1152.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, sometimes it does snow in Southeast Alaska, despite what I have been saying these many years. 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