Friday Five
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1) With an Artic cold snap gripping the nation right now, how cold has it gotten in your neighborhood and how are you coping?
2) What do you like about winter, if anything?
3) What are your favorite childhood memories about winter?
4) What is your favorite winter meal guaranteed to keep you warm from head to toes?
5) What would you rather be doing now?
1) With an Artic cold snap gripping the nation right now, how cold has it gotten in your neighborhood and how are you coping?
The winds have switched and it's a constant blow out of the north. I doubt the thermometer is calculating wind chill, but I know it was -8 early last night. I've been reading and staying under the covers. I did brave the elements to see if my car would start, which it did. Just hope it does so again.
2) What do you like about winter, if anything?
I love the quiet beauty of snow falling and blanketing the earth. It's a very peaceful feeling to watch. This last storm was kind enough to drop about 3 inches and blow away. It just adds to what has definitely been more than 25 inches so far this year. I don't recall a worse winter, even two years ago, when snow had blown drifts as high as my lower knee, as I've already tread through drifts almost mid-thigh high this year. If I had children, I actually could have told them when I was child we walked to and from school in snow this high and not exaggerate too much when I lift my hand to my waist.
3) What are your favorite childhood memories about winter?
We used to dash out into the snow and start rolling balls to make the first of several snowmen, spending much time huffing in the cold air, cheeks and noses turning pink as hats sometimes slipped over our eyes. Compacted snow clug to our gloves and somehow scarves ended up coated in a light dusting of flakes. From snowmen to snow angels and then hearty snowball fights with the neighbors or just with my brother. I can't recall ever feeling as frozen to the bone then as I have felt recently -- as in frozen nose hairs. Every trek outside was met with the warmth of a lit fireplace inside, which toasted our feet through layers of socks, while we drank hot chocolate and carried on with our lives.
4) What is your favorite winter meal, guaranteed to keep you warm from head to toes?
Chili! I have the fixings, but lack the initiative make it. I need to change that today. There's nothing like a steaming bowl of chili thick enough to scoop out of the bowl with crackers. With it, I may make some pumpkin bread. Oh! Brief domestication as my world has been frozen to a halt and Dan Brown beckons for the next adventure.
5) What would I rather be doing now?
Well I won't have to work tonight as the basketball games were cancelled and it appears wrestling may be a no go tomorrow. I would rather be in front of a roaring fire than in an apartment where the temp is set at 64. Sounds a little cool, and it probably is, but the heat from below rises and keeps it fairly warm here. I would rather have inventory done so I could be making soap, bath bombs and other things with color. Perhaps tomorrow I will have permission to get started.
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