It seems the Minnesota weather has followed me cross hemispheres.It snowed today on a blustery September day (like April-May snow in MN). Although it rarely snows in Dunedin, and most of the snow was in fact hail that melted approximately ten minutes after it fell, I still couldn't help immediately feeling a surge of delight.
I rushed to put on my boots, grabbed my camera, ran into the streets, threw open my arms under the gentle tingle of small hail/snow and yelled, "I'M HOME!"
I could feel my wintery Nordic ancestors speaking, their windy words echoing down to the depths of my soul. It was clear as the cold ice chunks being flung in my face.
Kelsey! You need to bake something, Ya!
According to my flatmates, I'm a true Midwesterner.
So after throwing on a nice thick Christmas sweater, turning on the Holiday tunes, and preheating the oven, I proceeded to bake sugar cookies. They weren't close to living up to my grandma's delicious ones (I've come to realize that no food ever comes close to my parent's/grandma's cooking, which I make sure to tell everyone I have a culinary conversation with), and we were in short supply of sprinkles and cookie cutters. But I worked with what I had, and managed to improvise a few nice snowmen and snowwomen.
Here are a few pictures of the lovely weather and subsequent cookies, enjoy. Cheers!
Our very snowy frontyard
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