I am a relative newcomer to North Carolina,  and I am also from another country.... I am a Brit. I am expected to talk about the weather.. and I lived for many years as a Yankee in Massachusetts,  before moving to "The South", and as I sit here looking out of the window on the first snowy day  I have experienced  since I moved here nearly two years ago, I am reminded  of those frozen places I spent the ten previous years. Oh, not fondly, but glad that snow is a rare occurance in these parts.  A quarter inch of the dreaded white stuff will close the schools here, (yes just a quarter inch). All of the local TV stations continued broadcasting the horrendous storm continuously through the morning, I missed my daily dose of Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts on Good Morning America...  and traffic came perilously close to gridlock.. what would we have said in Massachusetts......ask for the Governor's resignation no doubt.

I love living in this area, the weather is not perfect, but it's just peachy as far as I'm concerned. I played Golf over Christmas and the New Year  for the last two years, and I hope to play agin next week when it warms up again. For all you Yankees out there, winter as you know it does not exist.

Now you might ask what about those hot sweltering summers... What about them I say... two months of high heat and humidity where you where less clothes and drink more,  a cold beer, mint Julip or an iced tea or two on the porch sounds good to me... at least you won't freeze to death for three months.

We still have seasons here, the winter is shorter and milder, the spring comes earlier, and the fall starts later. Enough said about summer... Its a year round outdoor climate, there are many days in February when you can eat lunch out in your screened porch. The golf courses are open all year, and you don't need hand warmers to help get a grip on your clubs, or six layers of clothing slowing down your swing to 50 mph.

So today is an appropriate day to blog about the weather,  my first snow since I moved here... Hope its the last this year, it probably will be....