Blog Post No. 681

We’re right in the middle of winter and boy it’s been a cold one. We’ve had a pretty good amount of snow, too. At least for the area where I live in southern Ontario. Thankfully, we’re more than half-way through the dreaded daylight saving dark evenings. It’s not totally dark as midnight by 6pm anymore, but that doesn’t help us with the cold or the snow.

It’s been cold for a few solid weeks at the writing of this post (and I mean like record breaking for a few days for this area) and we’ve had a few heavy snowfalls around the same few weeks. Together it adds up to general unpleasantness, but I’m a little bewildered when people mention they’ve never seen the area so cold or have so much snow before.

I can understand if they are talking about the last 20 years or so when we’ve had some eerily warm winters, but even in the last few years we’ve had some bad cold snaps and at least one winter in recent memory with a ton of snow.

It’s maybe not common for the temperature to be so low and to have so much snow at the same time, and sure it’s been a few weeks and we’re all tired of it, but it’s not unheard of. The record breaking cold was only one degree lower than the previous record set within a year or two.

But, I am also getting tired of it. Though, I don’t hate winter. I don’t understand people who live in places with seasons who hate winter so much that they complain endlessly. Like, I’m not a fan of summer when it’s ridiculously hot, but I understand it comes with having seasons which I generally like, so I just put up with it and hide in the basement.

Sure, I wish it was warmer, but I don’t make it other people’s problem. I might commiserate with someone on a particularly cold day and sure, I wish winter and summer were both confined to two solid months with long spring and fall in between, but that’s what comes with living where I do.

Maybe I just need to ease off on my own complaints and let people enjoy grousing. I know I have my own frustrations I need to get out from time to time. Nothing eases frustration as much as having an outside observer agree when something is stupid (other than not having the frustration in the first place, but we all need to put food on the table, and I’m not in a position to run out into the woods and survive on my own).

At least we’re at the half-way point for winter. Only a few more months until people start to complain about the rain.