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I was standing on the side porch watching it snow and missing my willow tree house. How big the willow tree looked with all it�s leaves gone. I was wondering if the tree missed me and Pal and Fritz as much as we missed it. I couldn�t wait for Spring to play under it again. Spring was a long time away. Thanksgiving was gone and Christmas was coming. Today Grammy and Pop and I were suppose to go to the market and buy all the baking needs. Christmas Eve dinner was no problem. The goose was outside in a pen.
I looked up to the end of our street and saw Pop coming down the mountain. Now I would have someone to play with. Pop always took me downstairs and let me play with the wooden blocks of wood while he did whatever men do at their workbench. He came in the porch door and stamped off his feet on the newspaper that Grammy had put down for �all who came with snow on their feet� I ran and hugged him and started to beg to go down the cellar with him. �You�ll have to wait until I talk to mom� I knew better than to ask again.
He went into the kitchen with me right behind him. �So,what did you find?� Pop told her he found the deers footprints in the snow and it was the same trail he had seen since the summer. �I�m going next door and call our Mikey and tell him� She just looked at him and suggested he go across the alley instead. �With this snow?. I just came off the mountain and you want me to walk again, when there is a phone next door?� She gave him the look. Pop turned, went out on the porch and put his boots on and told me to put my snow suit and boots on also. I did that without question. I was waiting to go out into the snow all day. He just hollered in. �I�m taking Borka with me� Out the door we went.
Oh the snow was wonderful and I was toasty warm and happy to be with Pop. We went to the �Alley� neighbors and he called my uncle and told him the deer was still there, but he spoke in Hungarian so no one knew what he was saying. Of course there were many languages spoken in our neighborhood, but few around us spoke Hungarian. The �Alley� neighbor made sure I had my pockets stuffed with treats and off we went. Pop and I threw snowballs and I made snow angels in the snow. Then we were at the porch and off came the clothes and into a hot bath for me
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