Okay, so I realize that I am becoming part of a strange tribe of people. These arctic people will go through the harshest winters ever with a "we can handle anything! -30 degrees? That's for wimps!" Sure, there are complaints, but it is just the way it is if you live here...until spring arrives. After weeks of weather that rarely stays below 5 degrees, everyone gets very excited when it reaches 20 degrees. We shed the scarves and gloves and talk about how warm it is outside. But beware when spring actually arrives. After a 75 degree day, we do not take kindly to a 45 degree day, even if the weather man tells us it was an unseasonably warm fluke. I've decided spring is like a mean high school boyfriend. He can pump you up with one little compliment and then bring you down for days. That is spring in MN and we all grumble about it. "Stupid gray day. Can you believe it only got above 50 on a Sunday? I mean that was a weekend." We sound like snowbirds from Tucson. It's like we'd rather have winter where we don't go through the emotional roller coaster...he is the dark, cold, brooding type so we know what we are in for. And Fall is sort of the poor wimpy guy that you like, but you know it can't last because he keeps hanging out with the bad crowd (Winter).
Well, there's my little weather analogy...I'm sounding kind of like Andy Rooney so I'll sign off now! (Dreaming of those lilac bushes and excited that after grey dreary days, we are going to have some sunshine the next few days!)
2 comments:
Sunshine! *drool* I almost forgot what it feels like.
ha ha that was a good point. My grandpa said it was supposed to reach 80* the other day. I would be so mad if the weather played with my emotions like that too. And it would be even worse if it brought wind in with the cold days.
Seriously - we can switch places though if you want to. I got into my car the other day and burned my hands on the steering wheel and felt like I was suffocating since I was trying to breath in air that was no doubt 110* and had some kind of visual of Collin floating in a hot tub. (This offer only stands while I'm pregnant, so take the offer while you can! :)
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