Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for January 26, 2023

Living in North Texas (in the DFW area) snow was rare. Even rarer was enough snow to close schools. Was more likely to be ice. Didn’t want to go outside in that.

You want me to play in the snow wearing a coat and hat?!!@

Sorry kids it can’t get colder than ‘absolute zero’ (-273.15°C or –459.67°F).

Got maybe 1 to 2 inches yesterday. Grandkids were so disappointed there wasn’t enough to go sledding.

We are having a snow drought this year, had an inch or two then it turned to rain, weird winter!

We’d stay outside until our gloves were wet, building snowmen, forts, and stockpiling snowballs. Then, we’d run inside for a dry pair of gloves and keep going till mom forced us indoors. Wonderland!

The sleds beckon.

time for Hammie to practice his cursive

I’m with the kids. This makes perfect sense to me.

Zoom around the block a couple of times and the Zoom your classes at the kitchen table. And remember, picking your nose while the camera is on is impolite. “Were you born in the Twentieth Century?”

Wick Wanda get a net!!!

Quick Wanda get a net throw over them!!!!

Oh, now they want to go outside?

We rarely had snow days. We were expected to make our way to school even if the weather cancelled the buses. Actually, the buses ran anyway. They might have been an hour late, but they got us there. And then we got detention for being late. Those nuns were murder sometimes.

Nothing brings joy and laughter like frozen boogers and frostbite.

Hmmmm curious. From what I’ve gathered, they live in a house with a tiled roof. That screams Arizona or California or something. Unlikely they would have this type of storm. Hmm Do we actually know where they live??? In all of my reading I don’t think that’s ever been revealed. hmm

Shuffle off to Buffalo.If you can find it under all the…well,you know

Now, for the bad news; you still are taking classes online – get your chromebooks…

I can recognize this one as a rerun. I think some weeks they do all reruns.

I remember listening to the radio for school closures. Especially the day my school wasn’t mentioned and only after I walked the mile in the storm did I find that it was closed. Oh wait! Did I say mile? I meant 2 miles, uphill both ways!

I love it when it snows! Still a kid at heart. ☃️

You can’t have snowdays these days, they make you go to class virtually now!

Ah, the good old days when we didn’t feel the cold, especially when school was called off because of snow…

Yippee! Stay in doors all day and read!

Toughness depends on whether or not the ordeal is actually desired.

Someone called dispatch to ask if school would be closed because of the rain. “No. We have school even when it rains.” Poor fella.

Of course there was grabbing large cardboard and sliding at recess. Then sitting in class with your pants drying on the radiator.

Typical.

As a child we walked to school in knee-deep snow (yes I know that is relative to a 1st grader). We moved to South Carolina and it snowed 1/2 inch and they closed school. We could not make a snowball out if the entire front yard of snow but the schools were closed.

As a matter a fact, those who live in Nordic countries where it’s subzero for months on end, insist on going outside. It is critical for avoiding cabin fever.

YAY LOL

Haha! XD Thought they didn’t have “Snow Days” where they have online learning now.