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22.12.06

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

A drive during Christmas is a drive during Christmas, but a drive after a blizzard...? Ah! It was a nightmare in Colorado Springs today. I saw a few cars half-buried in the ditches by the roadside. The lane markings are semi-buried and of course no one really cares anymore. But the sun is out and but for the fact that we are due for another storm tomorrow, we might well have had no snow left by Christmas. But I finished my Christmas shopping and feel no need to venture out of our house again, unless it be to go sledding at the Johns tonight. For sledding I will brave anything...

Posted by funke at 22.12.06 18:05 | TrackBack | Posted to Colorado=Heaven
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Comments

What has Joni Mitchell to do with St. Nicholas?

Posted by: jolly at 22.12.06 20:21

Very good and bonus points for you, Jolly. Joni Mitchell was the soundtrack to my excursion into the madhouse of the Christmas shopping rush, and so I used her words as entry title.

Posted by: funke at 22.12.06 20:42

PS I really appreciate the Tertullian framing of the question...

Posted by: funke at 22.12.06 20:48