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CT gettin' schnoe an' I ain't missin' it! (Original Post)
sprinkleeninow
Dec 2019
OP
There was goodly snow on Easter Sunday one year in April when I was a kiddo.
sprinkleeninow
Dec 2019
#2
New Year's b4 we hightailed it outta there, we shot off leftover fireworks from the summer.
sprinkleeninow
Dec 2019
#5
BigmanPigman
(51,642 posts)1. Lucky you!
It hardly ever snowed this early when I lived near Phila. It always turned to rain and we would have to go to school after all.
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)2. There was goodly snow on Easter Sunday one year in April when I was a kiddo.
Fancy dresses and hats and galloshski winter boots. A veritable fashion parade! 😄
BigmanPigman
(51,642 posts)3. My family has an old slide of my sister and me
dressed in our Easter finest (matching dresses, hats, shoes, etc.) and there are remnants of a snowman in the background.
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)4. There ya go! 😄
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)5. New Year's b4 we hightailed it outta there, we shot off leftover fireworks from the summer.
In the middle of our road. We froze our buns off. Hardened snow and ice covered our lawns and street. The neighbors watched from their windows. Our friend's brother-in-law worked with someone who trekked down to SC every blessed year to buy fireworks. He took orders. Our friend spent hundreds. There was one called the cake. Looked like a cake and shot off a long and quite varied display. Those were the days...