Just so’s ya know, when you’re outdoors on 7ºF days EVERYthing counts as exercise. This includes:- Shoveling the porch (even to my usual, limited, half-assed degree)
- Walking from the far end of parking lot to front door of the Y. Now, on the regular, I park as far from my destination's entrance (Y, mall, medic's office) as possible. This is one of my attempts to get more walking in (yes – pathetically small beer but…eh…it’s something). In yesterday’s Arctic temps, there was simply no bloody way. I was gonna go for a space as close to the Y's front door as possible. I'd do my walking on the damn treadmill – INDOORS. Sadly, it seemed everyone else had the very same thought.
- Pumping Gas. Thank the little baby Bast for Bix's tiny fuel tank!
I didn’t do much of anything outside yesterday (can ya blame me? NO, you cannot!) but I did get to the gym after two days of winter induced slothness.I walked in and the wonderful front desk woman, right off, told me that there was no hot water (it was being worked on). I'm NO Brownie so my pool/lap plans were clean out. It was an elliptical day. Not as meditative, not as calorie-consuming but more better than laying in bed reading (my preferred form of exercise – no, it doesn't burn too many calories but...emmm...SO!)
Exercise happened. Yea me and shit.
Today’s supposed to reach a blistering 17º. Whoa, practically shorts weather! I’m gonna brave the elements and head up to the North Shore to visit a pal I've not seen in way too fucking long. Amongst other things, this is a good excuse to wear my new, gorgeous winter boots for the very first time.
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
~ Carl Reiner
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
~ John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Shut up John, yur drunk!
The cold cut like a many bladed knife. ~ Israel Zangwill
Yeah brother, tell it!
I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.
~ Bill Watterson
One kind word can warm three winter months.
~ Japanese proverb
How ‘bout a day? I’ll take a day at this point. If it works I’ll go for a full paragraph.
Just FYI, it’s 37 days until Spring Training kicks off. This was one way that The Amazing Bob and I got through the most heinous, coldest winter months – counting down the days until the Sox began prepping for summer’s game.
Possibly, I should dig up some of TAB's old Roger Angell and W.P. Kinsella books. Reading them might keep me warm. Worth a shot, eh?
I find myself liking the cold weather. Now the vast majority of time I don't have to worry about snow living in South Carolina, which would greatly change the equation. The biggest reason I like cold weather is that I do not have to cut the grass, a summer activity which I hate with every fiber of my being.
ReplyDeleteTe Amazing Bob and I were always very anti-trimmed lawn. Partly because we couldn't be bothered to mow. Mostly because we loved the idea of a wild, overgrown outdoor space of our own. Someplace for animals to hide and make their home. A place for birds. While Jen and Oni take care of our tiny outdoor space, they leave a wild patch here and there for us.
DeleteAll of which is to say, let your lawn run wild – it's beautiful that way :-)
I was just thinking yesterday that I am heartily sick of winter...in the first week in January. Mostly I am just sick of staying inside. Today will be in the 20s, tho, here in Maine...practically spring!
ReplyDeleteMe too!
DeleteFriday's supposed to hit 52 here. Jesus, gotta break out the shorts.
I always find February to be the hardest month. My patience for frigid temps and ice covered walks is thoroughly shot by then. I keep promising myself "next year I'll spend Feb in a warm clime," but somehow, I never get there :-)