Brrrrr! What to do about winter?
It’s mighty cold outside, unless you live in a nice warm place like Florida. What do you do to get through the winter? Do you settle in with a nice fire in your cozy home, or do you go out and engage in winter fun like skiing, sledding, or just throwing snowballs?
January 27th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I love winter because it’s the only time of year when our air is clear and we can see blue skies and the mountains on the horizon. The rest of the year it’s either hazy or smoggy, or both, and it gets pretty dreary. Luckily we don’t have snow here, though you can drive up to the mountains if you want to ski or go sledding, or build a snowman. Me, I’ll just stay here and revel in the crisp, clean air.
January 27th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Winter is a time for enjoying using the fireplace, which we don’t get to do very often. I also like being able to snuggle down underneath the blanket and comforter at night, which makes it easy to sleep soundly. I hate the hot weather when we don’t even want to have a sheet over us. Hooray for winter!
January 27th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Living in California, you would think our winters would be mild and tame and yet lately it’s been getting down into the 30’s at night! I love winter but I like to enjoy it from inside. If we had snow, I would definitely go out and play in it! Heck, I’d even like to vacation in a snowy cabin if possible. There’s something charming about that generic little picture. In the meantime, however, I agree with ayimp, the crisp air is definitely the biggest benefit of winter around here. Some days the beauty is just unbeatable.
January 27th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Being 87 years old I’ve seen plenty of winters both north and south from south carolina to alaska, I was born in Passaic N.J. and the winters were plenty cold down to 11 below 0 and the same with Plattsburg barracks, in alaska we slept in sleeping bags all zipped up with our clothes on, that was the first year at Kettle Cape Umnak the second year we switched stations and we took over Nikolsk where the engineers built barracks so no more sleeping bags and we could actually sleep naked if we wanted to but nobody dared to.
But I do have to mention that I went swimming in a pond at Kettle Cape in the summer which lasted about 2 weeks.