It's winter people.
Which means chances are very good, quite good in fact, that it will be COLD. You know, winter like.
Every year I crack up at my Facebook friends in other, let's say warmer spots around the country, who talk endlessly about the weather. It is either too cold for them or they are bragging because it is 80 degrees in January when the rest of the country is teetering somewhere between frozen toes and an ice rink.
I remember last month when my mom was getting ready to fly out here mid-month and asked about the weather. I told her it is cold. And it was. Daytime highs in the twenties and evenings dropping below zero. Of course, that was only about a week or so before we "warmed" up to the daytime highs in the thirties and evenings in the twenties or teens. No matter, it was cold.
She said, "I'm okay with the cold but is there snow on the ground yet?"
My response: "Why do you care?"
It isn't like she has to drive in it because she doesn't. I told her that the subdivisions still had white streets but so what?
My heater is on upstairs and downstairs at a comfortable 65 and 68, respectively. Granted, when we were below zero or in the single digits I left those heaters running day and night. (When the evenings are just cold but in the twenties I will leave the heaters on, technically, but drop the degree to 60.)
Inside, we are toasty and fine. You would never, ever know that the temperatures outside are cold enough to give you frostbite in six minutes. I wear appropriate clothes (Jennifer will come down to breakfast freezing but wearing a short-sleeve shirt, sigh) and when we are watching TV or a movie there are plenty of blankets around. I would not say my house is similar to an icebox, although I know I tend to keep my heater on the cooler side of things. (I can't stand a very hot house or even a very warm house. I get flushed and agitated. Believe me, it ain't good.)
Sure, we have to deal with the cold weather when we go shopping and have to go between car and store but it is no different than when it is 104 outside and you are melting.
And, yes my skin is more dry and chapped during winter and requires more applications of lotion.
I guess the cold is just not that big of a deal unless I have to go on a camp-out or am stuck outside for long periods of time, which happens, well, never. I own plenty of sweatshirts, blankets, and slippers. I make warm foods for dinner. (With dessert of ice cream but we are just weird that way.)
I love winter. Cuddling under a blanket, warm soups, slipper socks, hot coffee, hibernating, reading, watching movies, staying inside. Ahhhh.
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