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  • Older and not liking colder

    I used to LOVE winter – snow, sledding, ice forts and snowball fights, ice skating on the street, river or a pond, skiing in 40 below temperatures [before wind chill] but now I don't want to be outside in the cold.

    Partly this is due to a few too many bouts of frost bite on the finger tips but now I am thinking it's also due at least a bit to aging.  Cold ain't so much fun anymore.

    I am sitting here in extremely cold for us Portland wishing I had gone to Florida with a friend for a month…then I'd be warm there and return here after the arctic bast goes away.

    cats and cold weather

    But here I am, not enjoying the cold this winter, and neither are my neighbors or my pets.  I  know that when it gets back into the 40's during the day and above freezing at night – I'll feel better….and in the interim all I can say is YUCK!

    winter water safety "pee-er"

    [Sheba in front of the heater]

     

    And to keep the moorage water system from freezing like it did last winter – some have new pee-ers

     

    Your comments?  Anyone over 60 enjoying arctic blasts or nasty cold? 

    What is the difference for you?  

    Thank you in advance for commenting…..

  • oopsie – here we go –

    Many of us said we’d pay for our warm dry Fall… And yup – the payment is coming due this weekend. Sub freezing temps and possible snow – we may not get above freezing for several days. It’s nearing the 5th anniversary of my moving into this house and the weather is duplicating that which we had 5 years ago! So I can reframe this as a 5th house anniversary gift from the weather makers 😀

    Spent the day moving my plants nearer to the house and grouped so they are easier to put a tarp over – and the poor plants like my nasturtiums which grew back may not make it…unless I find room inside to bring them in.

    The weather here is so temperate that many of my houseplants have gotten so huge living outside most of the year that moving them in and out during very cold spells is no longer possible – I just do not have the space for them anymore.

    And of course the tasks that “should-have-been-done” when it was nice out are not done…but if they were – well then that would not be me.

    Reminds me of what my son said once when visiting me here – “it’s neater than I thought it would be.” I replied that someday it will be neat and spotless and he’d be surprised…

    “But,” he laughed, “then you wouldn’t be my mommy.”

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