Enough of Winter

03/08/2007

Most of December and practically all of January brought weather that is atypical of winter, at least in the area of Beautiful Downtown Berkeley Springs (aka Town of Bath), West Virginia, population 711.  Once February rolled in the weather went to hell in a hand basket.  Aptly put, February sucked.  A couple of mornings on the farm the thermometer outside our kitchen window read in the single digits.  Our house is situated so the wind in the winter months just never seems to go away, and it has a really cold bite to it.  The wind can send shivers up and down your spine as it seems to reach inside your flesh right to the bone.  It is time for winter to pack up for its annual sojourn to South America, and it don’t need no going away party.

Now with spring just two weeks off it is time to begin to think about outside chores.  I suppose in just about six weeks it will be time to cut the grass once again, and that is a chore.  While we own just three and half acres, we cut about six.  It takes me about four hours to do the job.  If The Nancy and I each get on our riding mowers – yes, we have “his and hers”, we can cut the time to about two and half hours.  Trimming, that doesn’t get done but about every third cutting, can add another thirty to forty minutes to the job.  If it isn’t too hot outside the job really isn’t that bad.  I would rather cut the grass than shovel snow any day.

I am traveling this week to southern Indiana.  The weather here is fairly nice with sunny days and temps around the mid-fifties.  The weather at home is not so good.  The Nancy is buried under another eight inches of the white stuff.  She is stuck in the house with just the dog and the cat to keep her company.  I can tell you she thinks winter sucks, too.  Bring on the spring, I am longing to cut the grass...for now! 

And that is all I have to say about that…