Then again!
If you live in the Northeast, you know what winters here are
like, a constant daily dose of overcast days sometimes filled with snow fall
and ice, accompanied by sleet and freezing rain. This is the Northeast after
all and besides who wants all that sunshine and warmth all the time. How would
we ever propagate?
I happen to be a big fan of the winter, I hate the humidity
and as long as there is heat in the house, I will enjoy the weather for what it
is worth. I sleep much better in
the silence of the heat than the noise of an air-conditioner. My appetite is
more robust as is my willingness to do things.
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Being I am retired I decide how much loving I want to do
about the winter, there is always a trip to Southern California and La
Principessa of course and that really warms me up! Then there is the window.
Nothing like looking out the window as the snow falls and you have no place to
go. All this was not the case when I worked of course, then I hated the snow,
the long hours driving 30 miles to work every day and then anther 30 back. It
usually took forever, and you had to have eyes in the back of your head while
on the road.
But sometimes even I can get sick of it. The week after a
major storm and the following days of ice buildup and dreary days, you look on
the TV and they forecast a major storm again! You hope to yourself that the
storm will miss, and that the weather man is wrong. Hope holds out until the
flakes start to come down, then you feel your heart drop and your mood change
or swing as they say; then it becomes depressing.
I don’t know if I could enjoy Christmas or Christmas Eve in
a warm climate, somehow singing jingle bells in the hot sun and humidity is kind
of sad. To me, to go to Florida I might as well just hang it up and wait for
the grim reaper. At least when the winter hits, there is the draw of Broadway
and the big city, filled with so much to do and see. It is in the winter that I
spend most of the time going to off-Broadway shows, enjoying every one of them.
Restaurants become more interesting in that they change their menus to seasonal
plates and so the variations are wonderful. That is what holds me to the 4
seasons is the tradition of each season is seasonal,
if that makes sense to you.
There is nothing like the anticipation of the first day of
spring like weather! It invigorates you, puts a bounce in your steps and makes
you feel good all over. The coming of summer now has a place and you spend it
with the traditions that you grew up with, and just when the heat and humidity
becomes too much, there is Fall in the air, a cooling down that is delicious
and a look back at the traditions you so loved as a child, Halloween and
Thanksgiving and then the big holidays of Christmas and New Years Eve.
How could I ever enjoy college football in the heat? And the
NFL, I need my easy chair on the fall afternoon, chips beside me with my nephew
screaming at the tube as I make fun of my team.
Baseball needs the lazy afternoons of the summer to watch a
lazy high fly ball settle in the glove of the center fielder, a sip of beer and
a laid back feeling of contentment.
No, give me the Northeast weather, keep your Florida and I
will die happy, not hot and sweating!
As we waited for a bus in the frosty
weather, the woman next to me mentioned that she makes a lot of mistakes when
texting in the cold.
I nodded knowingly. “It’s the early
signs of typothermia.”
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1 comment:
Totally agree! And to add to that, the "milder" and "later " winters that we do get are NOTHING like when we were children. Snow and cold could start as early as October, and go right through to Easter!! Ice storms that crippled the island, where you didn't even wanna let the dog out! Who had to trek through pounds of snow and wind, to get to a neighbor who had a gas stove, so we could eat? And of course, everyone kept that flashlight ready for night time. It was almost a constant! No, I really don't think the younger generations really knowt how bad the winters on Long Island were. (not to mention we need to kill these germs that are "creeping" back here......) the cold will do it! LOL!! We can all vacation when we need to........:-)
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