snow!!!!!! (and silver pennies)

so we finally got snow! i was afraid we'd end up with no snow this winter, sooo wrong, a New England winter with no snow, absolutely depressing! granted, it's only about an inch and a half, but that's still enough to make a few good snowballs with, hehehe! i have yet to lure my siblings out there...... actually tho, not sure i want to go freeze again myself yet. i was out in the coldness from 7 till 10 this morning at the barn, it was gorgeously white, well, not for long, i mean, how white can it be at a barn, seriously, but it was freezing. just watch, we didn't get snow till Feb. but watch it keep snowing into April or even May, just watch it! that would crush me. oh and Mom's poor flowers! a few weeks ago we saw that her crocus were already popping up cuz it was so warm, and now they're gonna die! ohhhhhh! crocus always symbolized spring for me, it was never really spring, no matter how late it was, until the crocus came up. and last week, at my violin lesson, there were robins all over my teachers lawn, poor things, now it's cold.
other news: silver pennies. yesterday at work, during my last half hour, it had finally slowed down in the store, and between customers i opened a thing of pennies cuz i was running out, and as i dump then into the coin drawer, i glimpse something silver before closing my drawer to take care of the next customer. i was thinking, huh..... did a dime somehow get wrapped up with the pennies??? after my customer left, the store was pretty dead, so i opened me drawer and went searching for it, and it wasn't a dime, it was a penny, but it was silver! it was from 2002, it wasn't just copper that was old and worn out, it was silver! i took it over to Josh to show him, he was examining it and testing it, it certainly looks real, and is real metal.... then i showed Naomi, and Trisha hears us talking about "silver penny" and comes over to see it, then Linda comes running over cuz she heard us talking, she takes one look at it and goes, "oh that's a dime you knuckle-heads!" Trisha says no, it's a penny, just look at it. then Linda actually takes it and looks closely at it and exclaims, OH! it is a penny! then Josh says, and we let you be on register? oh it was such fun! i asked if i could switch one of my pennies for it, and now i'm gonna keep it forever! anyway, that's all for now, must get some stuff done before i lose the whole day. i am copying this to my shoutlife too, i love that site!