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Today is the Winter Solstice, the longest dark of the year.
"Love all the seasons, because every season has its own treasures! Winter does not own the treasures of the spring; the spring does not own the treasures of the winter! If you know only the autumn, you are poor; if you know only the summer, you are poor! To be rich, love all the seasons and live all the seasons! Wise man is the one who knows all the treasures of all the seasons!
~ Mehmet Murat ildan
And you see, once we get past this it will be smooth sailing!
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Pity the poor folks who have to live in Hawaii without the seasonal changes! Seriously, I LOVE our 4 seasons and would miss them a lot if I didn't have them. Each one is welcome as it comes in, and I'm bored with it by the time it goes out!
 
The days get longer starting tomorrow! Oh happy day! Really good snow will soon start to fall! Oh happy day!
 
Himself is miserable all winter BUT it gives him something to complain about besides his health. It also makes him a captive to the house - if there is snow or ice he cannot go out the door because he would fall. I am not a fan of winter, but it makes me appreciate the beauty of Spring and the heat of Summer. I also would miss the 4 seasons if I were to live in a one-season place. Winter has a beauty of its own - the sparkle of the sun on the snow and the glisten of the trees now coated with a layer of ice. It is only after it becomes "driven" snow (by cars rather than the wind) that snow becomes ugly.
We live in an old house - cold permeates an old house. There is no basement so the cold starts at the floor and the only insulation on my side of the house is from the stuff they put under the siding. Himself has the warm side of the house. He sits directly over the furnace room (they dug out a furnace room in 1957) and the next owners blew in insulation for the attic and his side of the house (which has all pretty much settled to the first floor by now). The 2 bathrooms upstairs were insulated in 2006 by the deconstructors and our bathroom by the kids when Sheryl started the reno and Martin finished it. COLD is what old people do not like about winter. It is when the old people's "friend" comes - pneumonia.
 
gillumhouse said:
Himself is miserable all winter BUT it gives him something to complain about besides his health. It also makes him a captive to the house - if there is snow or ice he cannot go out the door because he would fall. I am not a fan of winter, but it makes me appreciate the beauty of Spring and the heat of Summer. I also would miss the 4 seasons if I were to live in a one-season place. Winter has a beauty of its own - the sparkle of the sun on the snow and the glisten of the trees now coated with a layer of ice. It is only after it becomes "driven" snow (by cars rather than the wind) that snow becomes ugly.
We live in an old house - cold permeates an old house. There is no basement so the cold starts at the floor and the only insulation on my side of the house is from the stuff they put under the siding. Himself has the warm side of the house. He sits directly over the furnace room (they dug out a furnace room in 1957) and the next owners blew in insulation for the attic and his side of the house (which has all pretty much settled to the first floor by now). The 2 bathrooms upstairs were insulated in 2006 by the deconstructors and our bathroom by the kids when Sheryl started the reno and Martin finished it. COLD is what old people do not like about winter. It is when the old people's "friend" comes - pneumonia..
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gillumhouse said:
COLD is what old people do not like about winter. It is when the old people's "friend" comes - pneumonia.
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And flu.
 
Arks said:
Pity the poor folks who have to live in Hawaii without the seasonal changes! Seriously, I LOVE our 4 seasons and would miss them a lot if I didn't have them. Each one is welcome as it comes in, and I'm bored with it by the time it goes out!.
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Hey, we have seasons in Hawaii. There is the rainy season and the rainier season. Plus it gets super cold in the winter - like 60 degrees. :)
 
its a pain for us as the builders (who are troopers and carry on whatever) are strugging through it but it means the car park has been churned to mud which is all tracking in - grrrr
I have a small hole in the wall into my bathroom :( which is whistling wind so want the extension finished asap!
 
Really? Right here in Chile, it seems like the longest day of the year :)
The first day of summer.
 
Arks said:
Pity the poor folks who have to live in Hawaii without the seasonal changes! Seriously, I LOVE our 4 seasons and would miss them a lot if I didn't have them. Each one is welcome as it comes in, and I'm bored with it by the time it goes out!.
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Yes, please keep us in your thoughts.
 
sachi3679 said:
Arks said:
Pity the poor folks who have to live in Hawaii without the seasonal changes! Seriously, I LOVE our 4 seasons and would miss them a lot if I didn't have them. Each one is welcome as it comes in, and I'm bored with it by the time it goes out!.
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Hey, we have seasons in Hawaii. There is the rainy season and the rainier season. Plus it gets super cold in the winter - like 60 degrees. :)
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sachi3679 said:
Hey, we have seasons in Hawaii. There is the rainy season and the rainier season. Plus it gets super cold in the winter - like 60 degrees. :)
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Actually I know what you mean. Our first winter in Shinnston we wore sweaters and light jackets all winter while everyone else was bundled up to their ears. After the -10 to -25 temps (sometimes 0 F was a heat wave) in Chicago burbs, the 30s and 40s here was warm, downright warm. Our second winter we joined the bundled up group.
 

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