It is days like today that I start wishing Spring along. Just came in from taking Jing-Mei out for her final potty of the night and it is just downright frigid. Now we have had colder days this winter than tonight, but for some reason the air just cut through me. Pretty sure we have winter weather in the forecast in the next few days and as long as it isn't my definition of bad, then that is fine. I would much prefer the cold air be accompanied by some snow.
Got me thinking how my favorite season has changed with the seasons of my life.
I remember growing up loving the summer! Oh I couldn't wait for it, it was my favorite. Playing outside, riding bikes, and when I got a bit older I had my backyard tanning. Back then it was all the rage to tan as dark as you wanted, I used straight up baby oil and glistened while soaking up those rays. Not the wisest of decisions but what's done is done.
Winter weather was a close second when I was young. We would have snow ball fights, build snow forts, do those running slide moves down the street in front of the house and hope not to fall and hurt ourselves, of course there was the sledding too. One year that didn't end up so swell for me. I think I was 13 years old and was sledding (standing up) down the hill in our front yard and down I went. Proceeded to sit out in the snow for half an hour to an hour because my father thought I was fooling around. By the time my mother found out I was actually hurt and scolded my father to go help me up I was quite cold and mad and got myself into the house somehow, only to be taken shortly thereafter to the hospital. Broken tail bones are not a funny thing to have happen.
But those were my young days and with my young days, summer and winter have also faded away and are no longer my favorites. Summers are too hot and winters are too cold. I think it's the little old lady in me emerging before I am ready for her.
Now I love spring and fall, each basically for the same reasons. The temperatures are more mild, the air smells nicer, the colors are brighter. Every spring I get into a full throttle energy boost and I am just doing and going as much as I can. My yard becomes my haven, I will spend evenings after getting home from work tinkering in the yard and then spend hours upon hours on the weekends doing the same thing. Whether it be doing actual yard work or improvements, or just sitting outside under the patio umbrella reading a book and drinking tea, I will just be out there. I love to fill up my bird feeders and watch the birds, squirrels, bunnies, and last year I had a small family of rats that visited as well. Don't anyone panic! They weren't like big New York gigantic rats, they were just larger than mice rats and as long as they behaved with the other animals in the backyard I was fine with them. Besides they didn't live in my yard, they would just visit from elsewhere and go back once the food supply vanished.
So when this cold weather like we have now is bitter and keeping me indoors, I begin getting a little antsy for spring. I know it's just around the corner and cannot wait to start in with my flowers and plants again.
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