The snow that fell last week has all but melted away now. Strange winters.It must be a shock to those who experienced long hard winters in their childhoods/earlier adulthoods,here in Sweden.

Instead....it snows in California!!!  Huh?  Yep! and to prove it here's a picture lifted from Fox News via AP. I have left the comment which appeared below the picture - I'm trying to decide if someone was being humorous or simply another fine example of the excellent accurate reporting available at Fox News (ehem. ..pass the salt please).

the caption says "Dec. 17: A California Highway Patrol vehicle drives up a road in the Angeles Crest area of La Canada, Calif"

heres the link

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Nothing seems as perfect as we would wish...

There I am extolling the many virtues of living in this

wonderful country...and then....

Swedish quake 'strongest in two decades'

The earthquake which rattled southern Sweden on Tuesday morning wasn’t as powerful as  initially thought, according to new data about the tremor  go  HERE

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