SHORELINE, Wash. — When you live on a hill, this is how you spend the wondrous gift of a white Christmas.
There were several kids in Shoreline. And their competition wasn't limited to the sledding.
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"You've been out sledding since last night?" they were asked.
"Yeah," said 9-year-old Cole Darlington.
"Me, too!" chimed in his 6-year-old brother, Chase.
"We were all here last night," yelled Ansen Filipi, also 6.
And why not?
It hasn't snowed this much here in their lifetimes, nor in the memory, at least, of their parents.
"You're surprised?" David DeAngelo was asked.
"I'm surprised," DeAngelo said. "When I was his age (pointing to his 15-year-old son, Dylan), I used to sit and watch the street light, just waiting for it to start snowing at 36 or 37 degrees. Never. It has to be down lower."
But snow always puts someone to work. On this Christmas Day, that someone was Mark Ozburn. We met him shoveling his driveway.
"Well, did you want a white Christmas?" Ozburn was asked.
"Sure," he said. "I don't mind it."
"You don't mind?" he was asked.
"No."
"So you don't mind spending your Christmas day shoveling?"
"No, it will only take a few minutes," he said, "and we're done."
In fact, his neighbor may have summed up the day best.
"This is awesome," said David DeAngelo.
"Yeah, it is," said his son, Dylan.
"What a Christmas, huh?" DeAngelo added.
What a Christmas, indeed!