Oh man. It was cold today. At least I thought was, and it reminded me that there’s going to be winter at some point.
Maybe it’s a little too early to be thinking about it, when it’s still falling leaf time and you can see the ground, but having had the dubious pleasure of experiencing an Oswego winter before, it’s looming large and foreboding in my mind. I come from a fairly temperate place – Bellingham, WA – and we don’t get much snow there. Maybe a little bit for a day or two, but then it just goes back to being overcast and gloomy. I was very much unprepared for winter then, but now I’ve got it a little more under control. Just need to knit up some new hats and gloves to replaced the ones I ruined last year.
Anyway, if you come from a warmer place where snow isn’t as common, even if you love the snow, even if you love building snowmen, making snow angels, traipsing about in your winter finery, don’t underestimate the winter. It will drain your will to live if you’re not careful. Even if it doesn’t do that, it will chap your ears, nose, lips, cheeks, and knuckles, make your feet numb, soak through several layers of clothing, put a layer of slick ice down on the sidewalks, cause power outages, and make your car hard to start in the mornings. I guess… all I really want to say is, be prepared with warm clothes, maybe some supplies in case of outages and sudden cravings for hot cocoa, and the knowledge that someday, it will end.
