The Freeze
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:26 am
Man, I gotta get warm.
This winter. It's only been here a little over two months and it feels like we've been couped up in this house for a year. I think we've had less than a couple hours of sunlight this year. It's been grey all the time. Yeah that was redundant but so has this Winter been. The lake is rolling over icy waves and the spray feels like tiny nails. Speaking of that, we haven't been able to see across the lake for a month. It's just cold and grey. What else is there to say? The trees are even grey and the ground is white or dirty grey or brown. Everything is either wet or froze or both. We keep refilling the Windshield Washer Fluid resevoir so we can wipe that mucky brown dirty wintery steel mill stuff off. I went out the other morning and couldn't get in my truck. The doors were frozen shut. Solid. The furnace hasn't shut off since I started typing. The cold goes right up and down your back, right through to the bone. It's brutal. Grab your coat and hat and gloves and let the car warm up.
Everyone get out your aerosol cans and lets get this global warming thing on track.
Tomorrow is supposed to dip down into single digits or low teens. I'm not leaving this house. I'll be sitting down here by the fireplace, napping and reading and watching TV whenever there's anything worth watching. Bravo's Next Runway Model isn't for me, I'll watch the latest DVR'ed "Monk" episode.
I feel like we should have a Moose hanging on our kitchen wall, like Susan does way up Nort' dere.
I want to hybernate. Lord knows I've been storing up fat reserves. That's another thing. It's going to finally turn into Spring someday and I'll have to buy all new clothes to go outside in...if this long winter of my discontent keeps on the same pace. I'll have to learn to say..."Hey hey hey".
I want some green grass and leaves. You ever see "Groundhog Day"? With Bill Murray? He's in Punxatawney PA in the dead of Winter, everyone is having a good time but him. He's a newsman covering the resident groundhog. They ask him for a quote about Winter...he says something like "You want to know about Winter? I'll tell you about winter...it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey and it's gonna last the rest of your Life"
It feels like that.
I want to take the bike out for a ride in the country, wash the truck in the driveway, go to a flea market or something and just walk around outside.
I don't want to live in Northwest Indiana anymore.
This winter. It's only been here a little over two months and it feels like we've been couped up in this house for a year. I think we've had less than a couple hours of sunlight this year. It's been grey all the time. Yeah that was redundant but so has this Winter been. The lake is rolling over icy waves and the spray feels like tiny nails. Speaking of that, we haven't been able to see across the lake for a month. It's just cold and grey. What else is there to say? The trees are even grey and the ground is white or dirty grey or brown. Everything is either wet or froze or both. We keep refilling the Windshield Washer Fluid resevoir so we can wipe that mucky brown dirty wintery steel mill stuff off. I went out the other morning and couldn't get in my truck. The doors were frozen shut. Solid. The furnace hasn't shut off since I started typing. The cold goes right up and down your back, right through to the bone. It's brutal. Grab your coat and hat and gloves and let the car warm up.
Everyone get out your aerosol cans and lets get this global warming thing on track.
Tomorrow is supposed to dip down into single digits or low teens. I'm not leaving this house. I'll be sitting down here by the fireplace, napping and reading and watching TV whenever there's anything worth watching. Bravo's Next Runway Model isn't for me, I'll watch the latest DVR'ed "Monk" episode.
I feel like we should have a Moose hanging on our kitchen wall, like Susan does way up Nort' dere.
I want to hybernate. Lord knows I've been storing up fat reserves. That's another thing. It's going to finally turn into Spring someday and I'll have to buy all new clothes to go outside in...if this long winter of my discontent keeps on the same pace. I'll have to learn to say..."Hey hey hey".
I want some green grass and leaves. You ever see "Groundhog Day"? With Bill Murray? He's in Punxatawney PA in the dead of Winter, everyone is having a good time but him. He's a newsman covering the resident groundhog. They ask him for a quote about Winter...he says something like "You want to know about Winter? I'll tell you about winter...it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey and it's gonna last the rest of your Life"
It feels like that.
I want to take the bike out for a ride in the country, wash the truck in the driveway, go to a flea market or something and just walk around outside.
I don't want to live in Northwest Indiana anymore.