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Oh hi, it's just Guinness here. My dad has an old farm expression that says the snow won't come til the swamps are all full.
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So he means that the snow won't stick around until all the little ponds, and all the little streams and brooks are full, and the ground is saturated with water.
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GACK! LOOK! Do you recognize this place? It is one of our cow pastures. See the pole behind me?
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See where the river is SUPPOSE to be? See the pole?
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And all our pasture has turned into a Lake. Good thing the cows are in the barn and not out to pasture. One year this happened and all the cows got stuck on one little tuft sticking out! haha!
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So I don't know what you may think, but I'M betting on snow pretty soon!