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It's Ariel and Raylene. Hello. Here we are. It's another snowy day.

Yeah.

But right before we hit record, all we were talking about was how snowy it was.

It's true.

I love it.

It's beautiful.

It's so crisp.

I was talking to a British friend of mine yesterday, Claire, who we've had on the pod.

God.

I love Claire so much. Anyways, I was talking to Claire, and I was like, it's so snowy.

And I was like, I think one thing that, like, people that don't live in the snow, people, you know, no snow people,

people that have maybe never seen snow or just aren't used to living somewhere where you get snow all the time,

is that there is like a scale of how much snow you want. Oh yeah. Of course. And actually having a lot of snow is the best because it's so bright. That's like it's white and clean. And so even though

it's kind of dark outside, literally the entire

earth is reflecting light up. And so it's not dark. And it makes the, I always find that like a

snowy day makes the winter feel so much happier. That's true. Actually. It's actually a lot

brighter. And some days, you know, you'll have a lot of snow and you'll actually have sun in the sky. And that's like a beautiful day. Like it's like bright and happy and you're like, life is good. And Raylene was comforting for both of us today. It's like a gray day. But because everything is white, it still feels really clean and happy and right. I don't even have

the light on in here right now. Like this is purely just snow reflection. Like all the rooftops around me

are just like, exactly. Beaming me in the face with snow. And you know what that means really?

And that means that those roofs have really good insulation. That's true. That's true. It's also like really cold right now.

Like this is the first kind of wave of like super duper cold we've experienced. Like it's

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