I woke up this morning, shuffled out into the upstairs hallway with my hair sticking up in eight directions, looked out the second floor window over the foyer and saw snow on the Davis’s driveway across the street.

“Snow!” I said to the barely lucid LaRay, who was still in bed.

“Snow?” she mumbled.

“Snow!”

After five years of marriage we don’t have to say much to say a lot. I imagine in twenty years this entire exchange will be telepathic.

It’s supposed to snow all day. We should get an inch or two, according to the Snow Advisory that was published by Those Who Publish Such Things.

I laughed when I read the Snow Advisory. Growing up in Minnesota, we didn’t get Snow Advisories unless Fenris ate the sun and the endless winter arrived. We just went outside, snapped a three-foot-long icicle off the eaves and played Zorro swordfights in the yard.

Anyway, here is our Snow Advisory for today:

…SNOW ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EST THIS EVENING…

LOW PRESSURE OVER THE MIDWEST EARLY THIS MORNING WILL MOVE SOUTH OF THE MID ATLANTIC THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA BETWEEN 8 AM AND 10 AM. THE SNOW MAY INTENSIFY FOR A PERIOD DURING THE AFTERNOON…BEFORE ENDING THIS EVENING. 1 TO 2 INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED…EXCEPT PERHAPS LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS ACROSS CENTRAL VIRGINIA NEAR THE CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA.

A SNOW ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES…AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.