A Snow Day! With real snow! I admit to being dubious at first- yesterday wasn't cold and when I woke up this morning it was just raining... but now the snow is falling fast, big thick flakes that are busy covering up everything. I put the bread in to rise last night, and this morning there is hot coffee, hot fresh baked bread and snow. What could be better?
I remember snow at Headacher especially- how the windows would get the beautiful frost patterns on it, the clink-hush of snowplows. Chains and snow tires, Daddy trying to make it up the mountain home after work. Headacher was always warm in the winter, there was always an oil lamp or candle on the table burning bright at dinner time.
Mum would bake bread, set it on the radiator board to rise covered with a tea towel. I loved watching the towel move slowly up. Asa the cat would try to nest on it, walk on it, get scolded and shushed away. Our home would smell lovely though- hot yeasty bread, tea with milk and sugar, safe and warm tucked away in the mountains.
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