I love Arkansas weather. We get to experience all four seasons. I enjoy each season for a little while and then I’m ready for a change. Today, we have a little dose of winter. I plan to watch it mostly from the side lines. I won’t be a part of the morning commute. I’m sure bread and milk will be gone from grocery store shelves soon as Arkansans attempt to cope with this little shot of winter.

On Sunday we saw seventy degree temperatures. Today we are dealing with almost an inch of sleet. The great thing about a dose of winter weather in Arkansas is that in four or five days it is likely to be seventy degrees again.

I look at winter differently now than I once did. In the nineties, I lived in Anchorage, Alaska, for three years. While in the Last Frontier, I met people that said they wouldn’t want to live in Arkansas because of all the tornados. I told them I would rather deal with tornados, which can be accurately forecasted, than with Earthquakes which appear with no warning.

In those three years, I developed a deeper appreciation for all things Arkansas, including the weather. After three years in Anchorage, we chose to return to Arkansas in 1996, and I’m glad we did. I think I appreciate the state more, now that I’m here by choice.

The good thing about these little shots of inclement weather that appear in Arkansas each
Winter is that they don’t last very long. We will back to mild weather in a few days.

Christmas is only nine days away! I hope to have my shopping completed in the next three or four days.

Here comes Santa Claus!