baymule
Garden Master
I have read several moaning posts about the winter and waiting for spring and I sympathize. I can't EMPATHIZE because I have no experience in winter snows and freezing cold that lasts for months and months. We have had several weeks of drizzle, freezing nights, gloomy gray skies, wind that finds the button undone on my jacket, and a few rains thrown in (for which I am grateful).
I am going nuts.
I want to go outside and :tools dig in the dirt, finish working on the brooder cage for my baby chicks, (all 20 of them are in a large dog kennel in the living room) and make something :watering GROW! It was sleeting earlier and that gave me no incentative for playing outside. Oh sure, I have things I could be doing inside, but the gray gloom I see outside permeates to the inside, with the result that I don't want to do anything. Oh wait, yes I do want to do something inside--I want to make a lemon chess pie and bake some bread--but the oven died a week and a half before Christmas and the new one I ordered isn't here yet. :/
So how do ya'll do it? How do ya'll stand being cooped up like a chicken looking at the gray gloom outside, the snow piles and the freezing temps ya'll complain about that never seem to end? At least we get above freezing in the daytime, up in the 40's, but it is the lack of sunshine that is getting to me. Sunday is supposed to be sunny with a high of 60. I think I'll throw a party! Then Monday it'll be back to gray gloom and drizzly rain. At least it won't be freezing, just a wet cold blah. We usually have more sunny days than this, and mixed in with all the gray gloomy days. It has just been a few weeks for me, I can't imagine what ya'll go through.
Also contributing to my cabin fever is the fact that my 89 year old mother lives with us now and there are a lot of things I can no longer do. I can't be gone very long from home unless she goes with me and she has absolutely no intrest in what I like to do. We have 16 acres a few miles from town that we had logged off and I can only look at the mess of tops and stumps. If I could go spend the whole day out there, then I would be quite happy piling and burning and getting filthy. Oh well. I was able to saw a tree in half today that had fallen on my cross fence.
My 5 year old grand daughter had the flu at Christmas. Then her parents got it and were very sick. By that time she was bouncing off the walls, so they called me to come get her. We kept her almost a week, then my DH got sick, now my mom is sick (I was mean and dragged her to the doctor yesterday) and I hung garlic around my neck and am carrying a wooden stake.
The drizzly rain has started again. The dogs are asleep on their blanket. Mom is asleep. All is quiet. I think I'll go unload the dishwasher and make another mess in the kitchen.
I am going nuts.
I want to go outside and :tools dig in the dirt, finish working on the brooder cage for my baby chicks, (all 20 of them are in a large dog kennel in the living room) and make something :watering GROW! It was sleeting earlier and that gave me no incentative for playing outside. Oh sure, I have things I could be doing inside, but the gray gloom I see outside permeates to the inside, with the result that I don't want to do anything. Oh wait, yes I do want to do something inside--I want to make a lemon chess pie and bake some bread--but the oven died a week and a half before Christmas and the new one I ordered isn't here yet. :/So how do ya'll do it? How do ya'll stand being cooped up like a chicken looking at the gray gloom outside, the snow piles and the freezing temps ya'll complain about that never seem to end? At least we get above freezing in the daytime, up in the 40's, but it is the lack of sunshine that is getting to me. Sunday is supposed to be sunny with a high of 60. I think I'll throw a party! Then Monday it'll be back to gray gloom and drizzly rain. At least it won't be freezing, just a wet cold blah. We usually have more sunny days than this, and mixed in with all the gray gloomy days. It has just been a few weeks for me, I can't imagine what ya'll go through.
Also contributing to my cabin fever is the fact that my 89 year old mother lives with us now and there are a lot of things I can no longer do. I can't be gone very long from home unless she goes with me and she has absolutely no intrest in what I like to do. We have 16 acres a few miles from town that we had logged off and I can only look at the mess of tops and stumps. If I could go spend the whole day out there, then I would be quite happy piling and burning and getting filthy. Oh well. I was able to saw a tree in half today that had fallen on my cross fence.
My 5 year old grand daughter had the flu at Christmas. Then her parents got it and were very sick. By that time she was bouncing off the walls, so they called me to come get her. We kept her almost a week, then my DH got sick, now my mom is sick (I was mean and dragged her to the doctor yesterday) and I hung garlic around my neck and am carrying a wooden stake.
The drizzly rain has started again. The dogs are asleep on their blanket. Mom is asleep. All is quiet. I think I'll go unload the dishwasher and make another mess in the kitchen.
