This week, Sunday Scribblings has given a prompt that asks us to tell a story about wintertime. What’s winter like where you live? What’s the harshest winter you’ve ever endured? Like it, love it, hate it?
Hmmm…where do I begin???
My first experience with winter, or as far back as I am able to recall, was when we were stationed in Alaska. Although I remember putting tin foil on the windows to keep out the twenty-four hour daylight, my most vivid memories are:
- Ice-skating. Where we lived in Alaska you didn’t have to skate on ponds or lakes. Our community had man-made rinks (outside). I had a pair of tan skates with faux fur around the top. I loved skating.
- Skating to school. One particular morning in Alaska, we woke up to our little corner of the world being coated in ice. And we still had to go to school! I can distinctly remember all of us in the neighborhood holding hands and slip sliding our way to school.
My second experience with winter came when we transferred from North Carolina to Massachusetts. This is when I began to develop an intense loathing for anything ‘winter’.
- Our first winter there we were house bound for seven days. Count them…seven days!!!! Due to a ‘northeaster’. It was awful. I cried and swore like Scarlet O’Hara that ‘as God is my witness I won’t live where it snows ever again’. So when I graduated from high school I made my way to a college that could guarantee ‘no snow’….the University of Miami (grin).
Now when I became a Georgia girl, I still hated snow…but I loved to snow ski.
What is winter like where I live now?? Warm. The high today is going to be seventy degrees!! I love Florida winters. It does get chilly and downright cold every now and then but there is never snow – unless it is man made for our winter festivals. Now that is my kind of winter.
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I remember when I was a child writing in my diary that I would be an adult (and life would not be worth living) when I lost my wonder at snow and saw it as a hassle I didn’t want to deal with. Um, call me an adult now.
Florida sounds like a wonderful place!! I’m not enamored by winter, either, and yet I’ve lived in it forever. Nice post!
I LOVE snow…when I’m visiting it. I found when DH and I lived in KY, that I really “need” the sun. I’m pretty sure that I could be diagnosed with Seasonal Affective Disorder. My problem is that I can’t stand the HEAT in our neck of the woods in July and August.
Thanks for all of your thoughts and prayers as I’ve transitioned here with my DS 1.
Much Love,
Susan
I don’t want to remember winter I am all for forgetting it. Driving home today was a white knuckle experience the roads were so bad. Florida sounds just great.
Oh I can relate SO well!!
Hugs,
Holly
I seem to be part of a minority. I love winter. The cold and snow give me hope for the new life that comes with spring. It is also a reprieve from all the insects that I’m not overly fond of.
I have found that for me living where the seasons are very blurred and not at all distinctive is very depressing.
Living in Alaska I do at times find the winter to get long but that is one of the reasons we make such a big deal out of our Festival of Lights (we string lights around the community and our homes just after Halloween), Fur Rendezvous and the Iditarod so that we have fun and positive things to look forward to during the dark days of winter.
I guess it is all in your perspective.
My memories are similar to yours. I grew up in Ind. just outside Chicago, Crown Point to be more specific. I loved winter as a kid, yeah snow days no school. But my parents didn’t that meant sharing our freezer and root cellar fixings with all the neighbors and the neighbor who sold milk for a living sharing his milk with us and my dad walking home from Gary just to be with us. Aaaahhhhh I still loved snow days, it didn’t realize the pain it caused my Godly parents. Then my dad left my mom when I was 11, I thought God walked out on me that day, but he didn’t. I just turned my back. Thank you for your blog it gives me comfort at almost 1am in the morning when my whole family is asleep and I can’t talk to them and drive them nutz like me. Stop it Penny your brain doesn’t know that you are joking, lol.