Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow

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Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

 

Sounds like Christmas, doesn't it?

 

I was out doing the weekly grocery shopping (and getting a start for Thanksgiving) at Sprouts Farmers Market and they were heavy into the holiday music - "Let it Snow" was playing when I entered the store.

 

This song always makes me chuckle, being here in Southern California, since we only get snow in the mountains, usually above 5000 feet, some of which can be seen from Carlsbad although they are many miles away.

 

About a year after we moved here from Boston - in March of 2006 - we had one heckuva sleet storm which was about the closest thing to having snow on the ground that I've seen here.

 

Sleet Storm in Carlsbad 2006

Sleet Storm in La Costa Carlsbad March 2006

 

 

Since leaving New England in 2005 I've only been in the snow a couple of times - once in December in Sedona AZ, 5 or 6 years ago, and once driving through the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains on the Pines to Palms Highway on the way to spend New Year's with a friend in the California desert.

"Let it Snow" ~ Frank Sinatra

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Grant Schneider
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Hi Jeff Dowler, CRS - I guess it takes a while to get used to Christmas in a warm climate.  I am down at our house in Florida right now and starting to see lights going up.

Nov 19, 2020 03:55 AM #17
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Brian England
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Hmm, I was in Sprouts yesterday but I didn't notice any Christmas music.  I don't recall what kind of music was playing, if any was, haha.  I was focused on getting my produce!

Nov 19, 2020 04:53 AM #18
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I kind of subscribe to that Christmas song ... "Let it snow... let it snow ... let it snow ... above 8,000 ft.  We need that water for the Summer months.  Just not in town to drive thru that white water!!

Nov 19, 2020 07:29 AM #19
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Good morning Jeff Dowler, CRS long before you got therea little over 50 years ago, I was living in Imperieal Beach and it snowed there. Rare, but there are times where it snows on the coast of California.

Nov 19, 2020 07:31 AM #20
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I'm with ya on the cold weather James Dray 

Same to you ba`B Ratliff 

Jeff

Nov 19, 2020 09:05 AM #21
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Nina Hollander 

I haven't been out in stores much so hadn't heard any holiday music til the other day. I'm perfectly happy to see the snow on the mountains.

Jeff

Nov 19, 2020 02:20 PM #22
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Jeff my wife loves to sing that song when it is snowing, that is until I try to hand her a snow shovel ....... LOL

Nov 19, 2020 04:34 PM #23
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Hi Grant Schneider  Have a wonderful time!

We often get cooler, and sometimes rainy weather on Christmas which helps. I don't need snow for the holidays!

Jeff

Nov 19, 2020 05:26 PM #24
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Ha ha Brian England It's good to be focused.

I guess I noticed because I haven't been out in the stores much this month and it was the first time I noticed holiday music.

Jeff

Nov 19, 2020 07:51 PM #25
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I get that Dan Hopper !!

Interesting Rocky Dickerson  I did a little Google research and there have been snow flurries in Carlsbad a number of times...seems like 1967 was the big year!

Jeff

Nov 19, 2020 07:53 PM #26
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Ha ha George Souto 

It's one thing to enjoy it falling but quite another having to shovel it.

Jeff

Nov 19, 2020 08:18 PM #27
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Hi Jeff Dowler, CRS . Having lived much of my childhood in California (northern and southern) without any snow around, I understand your thoughts.  Although I am at a mindset that I enjoy snow - in the mountains but not on the roads.  I am okay driving in it, but many are not and having to watch out for out of control cars sliding through intersections, or people going way too fast with icy conditions, I look at snowy days with caution.  I am fortunate that my husband does most of the shoveling!

Nov 20, 2020 03:55 PM #28
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Hi Lynnea Miller 

I got pretty tired of dealing with the commuting in the snow and ice in Boston (I lived in the burbs for a number of years), and having to constantly watch for other drivers. And by the time I got licensed in MA (2002) I already was pretty sick of the snow and cold and showing homes in the winter (and trying to find parking) was not a treat.  No doubt there is a certain beauty about snow, I'm just happy to not have to deal with it any longer.

Jeff

Nov 20, 2020 04:33 PM #29
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A pandemic is a perfect time to be snowed in. So odd but true. :)

Nov 21, 2020 10:26 PM #30
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Jeff, at least we don’t have to make another excuse because of the pandemic and we can ride this out. :)

Nov 21, 2020 10:28 PM #31
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Jeff Dowler, CRS - From coast to coast you certainly experienced different types of extreme weather, beauty and friends. 

Gosh, from my earliest recollections, Frank always looked so old to me but looking at that Frank Sinatra recording you provided, he looks like a baby to me and I'm the old fart! The song brings back beautiful memories!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones. 

Thanks, Jeff. 

Nov 23, 2020 12:38 PM #32
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So true Laura Cerrano 

Hi Patricia Feager, MBA, CRS, GRI,MRP  Yep he was pretty youthful in this recording. 

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Jeff

Nov 23, 2020 09:52 PM #33
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Myrl Jeffcoat
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When I first read your title line, I said, "Where is Jeff?"  Like you, we get little snow here in Sacramento.  I can count on the fingers of one hand, the number of times I have witnessed it in my lifetime.

Dec 17, 2020 01:19 PM #34
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Hi Myrl Jeffcoat 

We see the snow on the mountains many miles away but nothing here...although I understand there has been some snow in years past. I grew up with it in the Northeast, and from many years in New England, and I can't say I miss it.

Jeff

Dec 17, 2020 02:16 PM #35
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The last forty years in Northern CA I have experienced 2 snow falls. One lasted 15 minutes, another 1 hour by noon all melted. On same latitude many places get down to zero F at night.

Dec 18, 2020 09:02 AM #36
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