So... both my kids came home from school today and said they were going to flush an ice-cube down the toilet and go to bed with their jammies on inside out and backward. All in the hopes of having a snow day tomorrow!
(we live in Ohio, and today was the first day there was even a hint of this being winter.)

That is so funny. I had never heard of the jammies inside out and backwards until my daughter came home from school just before christmas and said she was going to do this. It worked. we got a rain storm and then the temps dropped and there was to much ice for the busses to travel safely. By Noon it was almost 50 degrees. She was happy she got an extra day to her vacation =)

Ice cubes down the toilet is a new one though.

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flush an ice-cube down the toilet and go to bed with their jammies on inside out and backward. All in the hopes of having a snow day tomorrow!

Oh my kids will want to hear about these:) We live in Vancouver, WA and they are saying we "might" get some snow on Tuesday night. So maybe I will have them do that tomorrow night:)

Trish:)

I wonder if it would work down here in the deep south where we were wearing shorts on Christmas day - I think it would take a LOT of ice cubes!

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I wonder if it would work down here in the deep south where we were wearing shorts on Christmas day - I think it would take a LOT of ice cubes!

It didn't work in Columbus, Ohio. According to the morning news, there was snow here somewhere...(I saw it on tv.) but there was no sign of it on my 30 minute trip to work.

No snow in Indianapolis either. I'm so bummed about it... I love snow. Anybody have any other ideas...snow dances, superstitions, etc. to help us out?

~J of JBBK2006

No snow also in Maine......

The ski areas are hurting for snow. We finally have our temps back near normal but we will again hit at least 50 later this week.

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Anybody have any other ideas...snow dances, superstitions, etc. to help us out?

I'm telling you.... complain about your heater working too efficiently and put away your snow shovel. Not only will your heater go out, but you'll get bombed with some snow at the same time AND you'll have to miss work (or at least a couple of hours) waiting for the gasman (or the gashole as I was calling the lady on the phone last night when she wouldn't send somebody over b/c I called 20 minutes too late to get same day service) to come and fix your heater.

We had quite an adventure last night camping in our own house, not even a month after we buy it! Too funny, it always happens to us I swear! On the bright side, it was an easy fix (and at no cost to us), we do have to check the regulator outside every day until spring when we can fix the roof dripping on it but we also got plowed out by a friend who "happened" to be driving by in his company plow truck. And my house is getting tolerably warm at this point while I am warm at work... we can sit on the toilet again!

moonduck

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No snow in Indianapolis either. I'm so bummed about it... I love snow.

Weeell, my friend and I have been teaching for 31+years and for most of that time we have been dancing in our respective driveways to make the school-stopping amounts of snow to fall. When Maine lengthened the school year, we had to stop. Effective teachers that we were, we were afraid that snowdays would cause school to be in session until the Fourth of July. Now that we have stopped the school stopping dance, the number of snowdays has been drastically reduced as has the snowfall. We have also inadvertently raised the mean average winter temperature by 7 degrees over the last 5 years. Talk about unintended consequences!

Eaglewatcher who would like to dispel the myth once and for all that teachers in Maine get paid on snowdays. We work a contract with a specific number of days attached--183 is the number for my district.

No snow in Indy??? Well, just wait -- a foolproof plan.

Tomorrow I will be priming my kitchen walls for final paint later this week. Weather will probably take a turn for the worse when I want the paint to dry quickly.

My REAL birthday is tomorrow and my parents tell me how they couldn't get their new car started the day I was born in Indianapolis. It was the coldest day of that year (you'll just have to guess). Mom and I arrived at the hospital at 6:14AM between the shifts. Elevators stalling, and I decided to arrive at 6:28AM!

speedy since day one,

speedsquare

Happy "real" birthday for tomorrow, speedsquare!

I hope you're planning on doing something other than priming your walls for your special day.

I also hope that it brings us some snow! I want a snow! I'm willing to explore all snow-making possibilities, including dancing, jumping, screaming in my driveway (and all of the neighbor's driveways, too if I have to).

~J of JBBK2006

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Tomorrow I will be priming my kitchen walls for final paint later this week. Weather will probably take a turn for the worse when I want the paint to dry quickly.

Alternatively, just wash your car! Works everytime! (and is less work than house painting)

Happy real birthday, speedsquare! I'll have my pjs on frontwards and right side out! and hoping my toilet backs up so ice cubes will be coming up and out!

preboxed
doing the anti-snow dance but only for Colorado. The rest of ya'll: Carry On!

Wash my car??!!??? That would take me a lot longer. It's becoming the 150K mi rust bucket and washing it now would guarantee it would die tomorrow.

And speaking of toilets ... the flushing mechanism (handle) just broke on my toilet. I guess we all know where I'll spend my birthday!

It's 20 degrees with a windchill of 14. Now where are my mittens?

speedsquare

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Now where are my mittens?

i didnt take them :)

kitten WITHOUT mittens

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I also hope that it brings us some snow! I want a snow! I'm willing to explore all snow-making possibilities, including dancing, jumping, screaming in my driveway (and all of the neighbor's driveways, too if I have to).

The traditional northern Wisconsin snow dance is this:

STOMP-left-left
STOMP-right-right
STOMP-spin left and throw ice cubes over the right shoulder. Crushed ice if you want an ice storm.

You should be facing WSW when you start (it's from where all great snow storms come). I've also heard that offering up a sacrificial snow cone may please the snow gods as well. Blue rasberry works best, but purple grape will do in a pinch. Not yellow. They get angry with yellow snow cones.

;)
AG