It snowed this weekend for the first time. Enough said, this is going to be a white Christmas and a long winter to look forward to. With every snowfall comes great complaints about short days and never-ending nights. Depressing to say the least. However, with all those years living in snow-clad regions it is about time we embrace and appreciate the beauty of all things white.
Christmas and snowfalls bring about the colors from all the cities across the country with decorations lasting a few weeks to months into the new year. Winter wonderlands come up at communities inviting suburban folks to have a few smiles and gawk at the decorations.
Heavy snowfalls are no reason to stay indoors. In fact, they are to be enjoyed outside by building a snowman and having snowball fights with close friends (and enemies if you can find them and entice them for a fight). Snowfalls are to be enjoyed on mountains where ice-tubing and ice-skating are as eagerly looked forward to as a sizzling summer afternoon spent at the beach. Folks in the US actually enjoy a winter vacation in the Rocky Mountains and the snow covered mountains of Utah.
Shoveling snow out of the driveway or getting the ice scrapped off your car tends to bring out frustration in many folks (me included) but it is something to be dealt with. If you have underground parking or a garage nothing like it, but at least you burn off some of the calories while getting your car out. How about that for an advantage.
Snowfalls bring out the urge to get under a blanket with your loved ones and share a hot cup of coffee or a hot chocolate and maybe, just maybe that will re-kindle a romance that has lost steam due to various reasons. I sound like an agony aunt, don't I? Anything that will help cheer up the troops that will see nothing but white until April, I am willing to take that chance.
A white winter is not something I used to look forward to in any of my previous years but here I am writing a blog about soaking up the moment and having a blast while you could be suffering from a prolonged depression.
While Buffalo, NY gets buried under a heavy snow blanket, most of Europe blanketed by an unprecedented whitewash, Minneapolis staying true to its reputation of being one of the harshest places to be inhabitate, here I am wishing you all a very white winter and hope you have fun memories to last.
Now, go get a shovel.
Christmas and snowfalls bring about the colors from all the cities across the country with decorations lasting a few weeks to months into the new year. Winter wonderlands come up at communities inviting suburban folks to have a few smiles and gawk at the decorations.
Heavy snowfalls are no reason to stay indoors. In fact, they are to be enjoyed outside by building a snowman and having snowball fights with close friends (and enemies if you can find them and entice them for a fight). Snowfalls are to be enjoyed on mountains where ice-tubing and ice-skating are as eagerly looked forward to as a sizzling summer afternoon spent at the beach. Folks in the US actually enjoy a winter vacation in the Rocky Mountains and the snow covered mountains of Utah.
Shoveling snow out of the driveway or getting the ice scrapped off your car tends to bring out frustration in many folks (me included) but it is something to be dealt with. If you have underground parking or a garage nothing like it, but at least you burn off some of the calories while getting your car out. How about that for an advantage.
Snowfalls bring out the urge to get under a blanket with your loved ones and share a hot cup of coffee or a hot chocolate and maybe, just maybe that will re-kindle a romance that has lost steam due to various reasons. I sound like an agony aunt, don't I? Anything that will help cheer up the troops that will see nothing but white until April, I am willing to take that chance.
A white winter is not something I used to look forward to in any of my previous years but here I am writing a blog about soaking up the moment and having a blast while you could be suffering from a prolonged depression.
While Buffalo, NY gets buried under a heavy snow blanket, most of Europe blanketed by an unprecedented whitewash, Minneapolis staying true to its reputation of being one of the harshest places to be inhabitate, here I am wishing you all a very white winter and hope you have fun memories to last.
Now, go get a shovel.
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