Snow

             It is so cold now, I wake in the morning shivering and hoping my cold doesn't get any worse. I am the first up, as I rise around four. Many people have asked me why this is so, to rise so much before the time the rest are even thinking about getting out of bed, and my answer always is that I rise then because that is when I feel like getting up. there is something satisfactory about getting up before even the sun, and also it gives me time in silence. at the moment I am praying for snow, whenever that will come.