I love to write and as well take pictures and I just found that it's been a very cold winter. It's late January now. That all said within the pictures it's just cold. There are no two ways about it. You can't do anything regarding it. You just have to accept it for what it is.
Cold is a time in which I find that in the past three years regardless of the city in Canada with the exception to British Colombia I find that most stay inside enjoy the indoors. Now for myself, if I was living in a year round warm climate, I would be walking on the beach. I remember Ft. Pierce very well and I recall the strolls in the evening after a day that the temperature was easily 75F if not more. So in this part of Canada, it's cold and it's not going to change till the end of January. That is when under normal circumstances - it starts to slowly change into Spring, sure it takes some time but when it does, everyone takes off there hats and gloves and it's a great time. But for now we seize the moment for what it is. As when your doing things within temperatures that are far below zero. You have to just either hibernate or bundle up and enjoy the evenings not out in the sun but indoors or at anthers.
For the life of me I don't know how they did it back in the times of my great grandparents whom came from Norway and Hungary. But they seemed to be able too. I am sure you have heard those stories of I walked a mile to school in sub zero temperatures.
Seemingly they all were able to do it.
They were tough in those days for sure Jack, AND they had no central heating either, never ceases to amaze me when I think about them.
ReplyDeleteI'll swap you for just a while Jack. I would love to have some of the weather you are having but I did say for a short while as I can imagine I would get sick of it. Here I am making the most of a pleasant day doing chores outside as come Tuesday we are in for four days of around 40c which keeps me inside and hibernating. That's when I will do those things inside the house with the aircon up full blast.
ReplyDeleteA happy medium sounds great to me.
Oh yeah I have heard those stories from my dad who lived in Scotland and walking for 5 miles in the snow. They did it yes. In so many ways we have it easier though.
Keep warm....
It's amazing when you come to think about it Verley. They had wooden stoves to keep them warm. Someone always had to go and get more wood...as well an out house from which to go to the bathroom...
ReplyDeleteDenise, we shall swap but after a few days I am sure that you would be thinking "it's nice but time to go home"....:). I found that as time passed they seemed not all but many in better health. Maybe it was having a touch of sherry to keep them warm now and then. Maybe it was that there immune system became used to it. I am not sure.
Tough I am sure it was, my grandfather from Hungary came from Budapest and I am certain that was a large change for him, but he was given land out west here for free as long as he made it work. On both sides of my family my grandfather's and grandmothers lived well into there late 80s and my great grandfathers and grandmothers lived into there 90s...
I am warm here and just going over some old saved pictures...
Well there ya go, that proves that all that hard work out in all kinds of weather were the things that gave them such a long life.Also growing all their own fruit & vegetables was a very healthy way to eat, I guess they would have raised their own beef & pork too, as my own Grand Parents did-- Bless them all.... Glad you are warm Jack ..
ReplyDeleteSo is this guy :)
ReplyDeleteI think he is kind of cold :) He came from a warm place but ummm something went wrong.
ReplyDeleteIt's cold but not this cold! lol
I, personally, am a wimp in cold weather. I, too, grew up hearing the stories of how parents and grandparents walked miles to school in even colder temperatures. In those days they were less pampered than we more modern timers.
ReplyDeleteIt's been very cold here in New york these last two weeks. We got a little respte for a couple f days, but tomorrow night, the cold snap returns1
ReplyDeleteAt the moment this morning it's -43 c with the windchill ouch! I feel like achmed....
ReplyDeleteSummer we shall wait for the time is near!
I've spent a lot of time outdoors in the cold over the years - walking to night classes, catching buses, ice fishing, skating, snowmobiling, etc. Bundle up right and well and it's doable - and healthy. I'm just getting old and lazy. *L*
ReplyDeleteSame here and there are some that might have varying reasons here within areas that are of a colder climate and that is not lazy that is just adjusting to your own compass...
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