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Lee Anne ... What a great article. As a Southerner, I love the photo's of the white stuff but I am sad that you are suffering with such cold temperatures and all that snow! My Goodness that really is a lot of snow! I cannot even imagine what it must feel like at - 25 degrees! I've never experienced temperatures like that. I hope it won't be long before your maple trees begin leafing out and all that white stuff is melted and dried up so you can get out in the garden again! Having lived in the South all my life, I can't even imagine what real winter must be like when it's so cold for such long periods.
I love the photo's of the snow ... but sure wouldn't want to spend more than a week with that weather!
So, hang in there and hopefully Spring is on the way! I am wishing lots of Sunshine your way!
We had an unusual cold front come through here with some much needed rain, and our low last night was 35 degrees! Very unusual for the end of February although our record for this date was 28 degrees back in 1943. Our high today is going to be upper 50's ... very unusual but I can't complain when I see what other folks are having to deal with! We've had such a mild winter that our grass has remained green throughout the winter, and it's been so warm our air conditioning has remained on with the exception of a couple of cold snaps when the heat automatically kicked on, like last night.
My husbands brother and his family have lived in upstate N.Y. all their lives and I remember my Sister in Law telling me once that they go sometimes 3 months without seeing the sun shine! I just can't imagine that! I really understand that syndrome called S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder). I would be very depressed if it were cloudy and dreary for long periods.
So, Happy Sunshiny Day to you! I hope Mr. Sun continues to shine and melt all that snow and that Spring will be heading your way very soon!
Oh Lee Anne, that photo of your little dog in the snow is so funny (thought not to the dog, I'm sure!) and so familiar. I recognize that pleading look. We have two terrier-mixes, and I have to order them to go outside, then shove them, and finally bribe them by flinging dog biscuits out in the snow.
This article captured my sentiments exactly!! We have had more snow this year than any year since 1800-something!! The snowbanks are so high that I despair they will ever melt. Last year at this time, I was starting my pond back up and we had no snow. New England is cruel. (Yet I can't imagine ever moving).
Too funny, lol @ the kitty giving you dirty looks.
I lived in upstate NY when my kids were little and I remember the cabin fever. First day it got above freezing we bundled up and went out doors for a long walk. Moved to New Mexico in 1984 & haven't missed those winters we left behind one bit.
Sorry to say, but I know how you feel. Spent most of my life in New England and know all too well the feeling of late winter madness. I now live in North Georgia and am adapting to what winter here means.
I found what helped me was to surround the old farmhouse with as much winter color as I could get. Holly's and evergreens, as many different kinds of berries as I could find. Great for me, great food and cover for the birds. Fed the birds religously, twenty five pounds of black sunflower a week.
Planted a Harry Lauder's Walking Stick outside the window I sat by. One warm-ish day post-Christmas I bought several strands of lights on sale. Got out there and wound them on to the branches. At dusk I plugged it in...VOILA!
Sure, the neighbors thought I was nut's, but who cares, it's late winter.
Inside, if you can swing it, a room commited to tropicals. Tile the floor, get supplemental heating and lighting. Fill it with tropicals. Put a chaise lounge in there, slip into some shorts or bathing suit, fire up the blender. Spring is on it's way.
