Nov
18
2014
I could not “hide” and stay in my house where it was warm to avoid the cold. The temperatures were below freezing the second day in a row. If I could, I would but eventually I will have appointments to go to and errands. Winter still was over four weeks away officially. How discouraging!
Mar
30
2014
It was a typical cold and wet March day. It certainly is not as cold as parts of winter were. Nevertheless, all I wanted to do was stay in. We are planning a movie date and a nice dinner. That was something to actually agree on a movie. That usually is very difficult for us to do. I found a comedy we had never seen. Warmer weather is on the horizon. I just have to keep that in mind. And enjoy the Sunday inside.
Mar
27
2014
Today I found out the color of the next budding Gerbera plant in our house. It was red. The other had three full orange flowers. It was an experiment that succeeded. They are annuals and survived the winter inside. I usually buy one or two a year. Sometimes we plant them outside or place them in the sun and other buds come up. It is just a flower I like and am thrilled to have them grow and have flowers in our house.
Mar
26
2014
It was winter’s last gasp. There was a thin layer of white on the ground. It might be the last time we get snow this season. I checked the ten day forecast: today would be the coldest and tomorrow it would hit an high of forty-eight and after that it was fifties and even sixties. The cold weather will just become a distant memory.
Mar
11
2014
Spring is on its way. I heard someone in the bank say, ‘Today is going to be the hottest day of the year.’ I keep checking the bed of daffodils on the side of the house. Today a third clump was peeking its way through the earth. I still see no sign of the crocuses in our yard. The ten day weather forecast indicates we will get some more cold temperatures but the end of the winter is in sight.
Mar
8
2014
We actually had a Gerbera daisy bloom in our house today–an orange one. It was winter time. We had brought in two plants before it became cold. And one decided to bloom. One had never done that before. The orange flower is a harbinger of spring. We are in the middle of a “heatwave”: it will hit forty for at least five days. I am praying all our snow and ice melts so we don’t pray for our life every time we walk the forty feet to our cars.
Feb
28
2014
It was three weeks to spring. There was no end of winter in sight. It was zero degrees when I checked the computer this morning and the ten day forecast was not encouraging: twenties and thirties highs. It definitely was not seasonable weather. Abnormally cold.
Feb
22
2014
It is one day minus four weeks to spring. My countdown has started. It has been a little warmer for a few days but the temperature is going down again. I keep checking the ten day forecast but it does not bode much relief from the cold. Not yet anyway. And there might be more snow on the horizon. Will this winter ever end?
Feb
16
2014
It is one day minus five weeks to spring. All I see is snow. And it feels like the cold will never leave us. In the next ten days there will be five days where it will be in the forties, then thirties again. It will warm up again. Our one car is snowbound. Let us see how long it takes for the snow to melt. At least, I got the other car out. Spring will come. It just does not feel that way now.
Feb
6
2014
It is beyond the halfway point of winter. Spring, in fact, is next month. I checked the ten day forecast. At best, the temperature is a degree or two above freezing. Our car got stuck on the ice trying to back out. A neighbor spent over an half an hour shoveling the ice under my car. (bless his help) Finally we got the car out. It seems as winter will go on forever. There is no end in sight.
Feb
2
2014
It is still going to remain cold. I checked the ten day forecast and seven of those days it will not going above freezing. I will just bare (bear) it. And have enough layers of clothing on. There is nothing else to do. I will stay in most of the time. And still shiver every time I go outside no matter how much clothing I have on. And will not be able to wait until the heat kicks on in my car.
Jan
26
2014
I checked the long range weather forecast for February. I know it could change. Nevertheless, it was encouraging. No more Arctic freeze. The temperatures were low forties high and low thirties low the whole month. We will see. There are three more days left of the freeze. Then it will warm up a little. I still want to go away for a week. This winter. I really am tired of the cold.
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