Maybe it's just me, but I think the winters are getting longer as I get older. I love this part of the country 3 out of the 4 seasons, but it's just getting too cold and staying way to long for my liking. Retirement time is rapidly approaching for me and before long decisions will have to be made as to where to spend my old age. Not that I think I will be around to be really old, but I do want to have some time to enjoy my "Golden years" before the long sleep.
When I was a kid I loved winter. Sledding, ice skating, snowball fighting, building snow forts, sugaring in the late winter at my Aunt's farm, and slogging through the snow to hunt rabbits. I don't remember getting so cold back then, but now...even 10 minutes outside and I'm ready to be back indoors. I guess being born in the summer really does make me a warm weather person. I was in the Adirondack mountains here in upstate New York last week and I realized just how beautiful it can be here when the trees get their new leaves and there are so many different shades of green everywhere. If it could stay like this all year I would be perfectly content to stay here. But, then comes the winter again. It is beautiful for the first few days when we get that crisp, clean blanket of new snow, but then it gets ugly real fast and it stays....and stays....and stays.
It's a fun exercise to talk about where we are going when the time comes, we have considered the southern part of California, far from here and where the sun shines most of the time. Time will tell I guess. I will miss the 3 seasons here, but when one season seems as long as the other three? Yeah, it's time to consider the options.
Have a great summer everybody!
