Winter is here. What is your favorite winter-time activity you partake in during the cold, dark winter months?
(Submitting Vote)
Current Results:
31% Hibernate (with a good book or movie)
13% Baking
10% Ice Skating
9% Building snow people
7% Skiing (downhill or cross-country)
7% Sledding with the kids
6% Nothing different - I live in a mild area
6% Ice Fishing
4% Heading to a tropical island
4% Snowmobiling
3% Snow shoeing
31% Hibernate (with a good book or movie)
13% Baking
10% Ice Skating
9% Building snow people
7% Skiing (downhill or cross-country)
7% Sledding with the kids
6% Nothing different - I live in a mild area
6% Ice Fishing
4% Heading to a tropical island
4% Snowmobiling
3% Snow shoeing
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4 comments
I hibernate in the winter. If I were a bird, I would fly south where it’s warmer.
When the calendar turns to winter, it’s time for me to hit the ski slopes.
Since I live in Volusia County, Florida, I’d find snow astonishing, though they had some in Ormond Beach last winter, but this is nothing like Miami: it gets cold. Winter is a good time to clear and break ground for a garden and to start seeds in pots or flats that can be hurried indoors at need. Collards stand well through the coldest weather and used as cut-and-come-again greens if you take the outer leaves, and after two or three years, the stalk is long and tough enough to use as a walking stick (Brits have a kind of collard they use just for that). Around mid- February, we usually have the kind of dry, windy, sunny weather that is good for house painting. Citrus is in, so it’s marmelade time. It’s a good time for cycling, too, and prime for kites.
I love Autumn because after going, going, going during the summer months, autumn allows me time to settle down a bit and get ready for winter. During winter I like to go to work then come home and fix a nice meal and just curl up with a good book or facebook:) . If it’s snowing …oh my! Can you say HIBERNATE!
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