December 15, 2025
Winter is coming to the northern part of the world. (It’s here!). Do you have any plans, or do you prefer to hide from the cold?
You may know the song – “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”
Many of the past years, we’ve had a hint of winter before the holidays. An inch of snow here, a skiff of snow there. “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” was only a dream. This year, that all turned upside down.
It was only a few short weeks ago when I was trying to save the last of my summer flowers to anticipated nights of near-freezing temperatures. I enjoyed every extra moment I scavenged.
Now, winter has hit hard, and it’s not even officially that season yet. In the past week, we’ve received around three feet of snow, and we’re getting more. I’ve given up trying to keep my sidewalk clean. It’s time to hibernate.
(That’s my back deck. I estimate two feet of snow on the railings. And it’s still better than the hurricane force winds in Alaska, the floods in Washington and Oregon, and the winds strong enough to tip over semitrucks in Wyoming and Colorado.)
But that doesn’t mean I will become inactive.
All the housework I ignored in favor of being outside all summer will nag me. Spring cleaning comes early in this house. It’s a natural progression from taking down and putting away Christmas decorations to deciding that deep cleaning is in order. And despite my determination to get caught up on my reading list, somehow, that never happens.
But perhaps I’ll make more progress on my work-in-progress, book 2 in the Edwards Investigations. It was coming along well until I stopped to send out Christmas cards. Now, it’s just nagging me, taunting me. I should give it some well-deserved attention tonight after I finish this post, while I sip on a cup of peppermint tea.
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And, as always, please stay safe until next time.
December 15, 2025
Winter is coming to the northern part of the world. (It’s here!). Do you have any plans, or do you prefer to hide from the cold?