Comments on: Intermission…a Brief Thaw https://www.marshmallowranch.com/intermission-brief-thaw/ She traded her tiara for wings and a pickup Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:08:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ginny McKinney https://www.marshmallowranch.com/intermission-brief-thaw/#comment-4024 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:08:52 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2336#comment-4024 In reply to Sandra Martindale.

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]]> By: Ginny McKinney https://www.marshmallowranch.com/intermission-brief-thaw/#comment-4023 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:08:42 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2336#comment-4023 In reply to Fran Miller.

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]]> By: Sandra Martindale https://www.marshmallowranch.com/intermission-brief-thaw/#comment-4022 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:25:32 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2336#comment-4022 I was not allowed to wear pants to school either. I know things were worse before my time but it was so cold having to wear those dresses! The school bus had a heater but it never was warm enough. I just got back from a trip out west(with Sue Clifton) in the snow & icy roads. I can’t imagine school buses having to run in that stuff! Temperatures were -15 or colder. The snowy scenery is beautiful but I think I’d rather stick around here in Mississippi. Ha!

]]> By: Fran Miller https://www.marshmallowranch.com/intermission-brief-thaw/#comment-4021 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:45:11 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2336#comment-4021 There were so many lawsuits after bus wrecks, etc… that most school districts can’t afford to take a chance. The biggest problem for families is that both parents usually work these days so a delay or cancellation causes someone to have to stay home if they don’t have a Plan B. Most child care centers don’t accept drop-ins like in the days when your Mom and I worked in the field and always saw an uptick in kids on Snow Days.

In elementary school, I had to wear these AWFUL snow pants under my dress on cold days, in addition to those snowboots that went over my shoes. Getting them all off at school in the old “cloakroom” was hard! Putting them back on before going home was harder. By the time I was a teen, like you, huddling with my friends and freezing was preferable to dressing warmer, even if I would have had the gear, which I didn’t. Good memories as I sit in my warm apartment waiting out a 2 hour school delay in Northern Delaware. Ironic, yes? ❤️

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