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I'm sick of winter.
I'm tired of being cold.
I'm sick of hauling firewood around and stoking the woodstoves.
I've had enough of feeding hay to the horses and the pony.
Tired of shovelling the white stuff and breaking the ice in Dixie's outside water dish.
Sick of white-knuckle driving through "wintry mix" after "wintry mix".
Don't wanna have to wear gloves and heavy coats any more.
I'm ready for spring and summer, when the outside temperatures are warm enough that they don't need assistance from the cord wood, and the pastures are green and growing food that is untouched by human hands so that Hoo, Mariah, Shasta and Angel can browse at the natural smorgasbord all day long all by themselves.
You don't have to shovel sunshine, and fair weather does not fall on the roads and create challenges for drivers.
Because of this yearning for balmy weather, I went searching through my digital archives for fair weather photos, and I came up with one that I made into my new avatar.
That's me, in just baseball cap, shorts, and boat shoes, at the helm of my beautiful Freedom cat-ketch sailboat, sailing through Narragansett Bay last August. The air temperature was somewhere in the eighties, there was a soft breeze to fill the sails, and life was good AND WARM!!!! (Incidentally, that bridge behind me is the Newport Bridge, that connects The Island of Conanicut to Newport, RI.)
(sigh!)
Life is good.
Sailing weather is not too far away!!!!!!
My rose plants never died back this year, a mild winter. Of course, we do have those nasty hurricanes, but I will take them over a snow storm any day.