NYC First Snow Fun

     Wooooo!! Wooooo!! 9Am Sunday, 12 inches of snow later. The kids across the street are up early and away from their PS3's, X-Boxes, Ninentendo's and TV's, swapping  joy-sticks and remotes for snow balls and sledding down the driveways. Bang, bang, thuck, crack, crack, cruck, scrape, scrape, chop, chop sound the shoveling crews juiced by Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama," Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone," The Trogg's "Wild Thing," Joel's "Uptown Girl," and other hits. No match for the metal and muscle, the snow relinquishes the fight and gets piled high, off the curb to be salted then mashed by steel belted radials. "Eeeee, yaaah, you got me!" "Ha ha ha" the children shout as they run down the block armed with snowballs to uncleared sidewalks and driveways.

     Friday night the supermarket was packed as everyone stock piled for the weekend. By 8:30AM Saturday the Corner Deli was almost sold out of Crystal Salt and Newspapers. Apparently I wasn't the only one up early getting last minute fixes for the weekend, a copy of the Financial Times for me, a pint of Haagen-Daz chocolate chip cookie dough for my daughter. Yeah, sure, real clever.. The real clever one's were my neighbors who were purchasing not one or two but three bags of Crystal Salt or four to put around their cars, the sidewalks and steps to their homes as precautionary measures.

     We are all enjoying a pause this weekend from the daunting news of "the economy stupid," embracing the icy cool calm that fills the streets, catching up with chores at home, tackling piles of laundry, piles of unread books, magazines, graphic novels, mail, resting, talking, playing, etc., while others enjoy the carry over effect of Chanukah celebrations. Tourists on holiday for the holiday's got to enjoy the beauty that is NYC dressed in an elegant, flowing gown of white instead of the gray suit it sports most days.

Children and snow
Dogs and snow 
Were the weekend's spectaculars!!

Right: Maisel/ News

Left: Cool snow action shot by http://www.wallstreetjackass.typepad.com/