Too Long / Too Cold

It has been a cold winter.  We have had snow too; we aren't buried in snow but we are sure in the deep freeze with the temperatures.

Some January's we have a thaw and we have a weekend at the cabin.  Some Decembers we get down.  We have not been down to Too since late October or early November.  Just checked the checkbook register to find out (since I'm not keeping a journal for the last six months or so.  I wonder why?).  Anyway, we came down the weekend after my first cataract surgery, November 8, 9 and 10.  We haven't been back since.  May not get back until June the way it is going.

We leave these lights up year around.  I love the festive look.
 

I remember one New Year's eve that we had four children at the cabin.  We had a great celebration.  It was warm enough to take walks and I took photos of the children standing on Rock Monument.  We went outside at midnight and blew our new year horns and yelled "Happy New Year!"  I think PaPa even had one big firecracker to boom.  It was a good time.  go here - - >  click

 

I wanted to put these old-fashioned Christmas lights up at the new cabin but settled, instead, on using them on the garden shed porch. 



 

Himself and I don't remember such a cold winter for a bunch of years.  I remember a year in late 80s that was cold.  We drove to Minnesota one cold New Years weekends and the temperature never got above zero. 

I remember a spell in the 60s where the temperature hovered around 0 degrees.  It was a year of The Miniskirts (no jeans allowed at school) and we had to walk from the High School to a store building uptown for one of our classes.  We walked about 4 blocks and literally (about froze) our fannies off.  Oh my. 

Forecast for this upcoming week is temperature below 0 every night and barely creeping above zero during the day.  At least one day, the thermometer will not even see the zero mark.

We will be thankful for Spring this year. 

And maybe I'll look forward to Global warming : )                   just kidding.