Nope, no fun at all. I keep telling myself that at least my plants are nice and snug under a layer of snow, instead of exposed to the elements in a "dry" cold winter.

Laurel

That's true - no more "early spring" in November!!

Now its four times this week - I'm getting it down to a science ;-)

We just got hit last Sunday with a foot but none since. Unfortunately, our snowblower appears to have a loose pin and then my husband broke the startup pull yesterday while checking it out to determine what parts he needed so it is now in dire need of repair. So when (not if) we do get more snow, I'll be wielding the beat-up shovel.

The plants are, indeed, snug under some snow, but that should melt this weekend. I'm thinking this warm-up cool-down cyclical weather is NOT what the plants need.

I need Arizona. Southern Arizona. 70 degrees and sunny. I've had it with winter, especially now when everyone is in their shopping frenzy. I like a good snowstorm, but I can have that in the mountains of Arizona. My friends who winter in Florida are laughing in ecstacy.

susanzone - I spent a year in Tucson - which included an entire summer. After dealing with the heat and scorpions in the house in a brand new development, I realized I'd rather spend a winter here than a summer every again in AZ.

Actually, I love the seasonal changes; there's always something somewhere.

I could never be in Arizona in summer..I don't know how they do it. They say they stay indoors all the time in air conditioning. I like it just for the winter. It's so delightful there, and with enough winter rain, the desert is covered with poppies. I had some scorpions in the place where we stayed and that scared me but I squished them. I'm sick of this horrible cabin fever, sunless sky, and icy slush.

I love the seasons, too, especially spring and fall, but you can keep December through February around here! I'm getting to the age where I understand snowbirds heading south. (Also the age where I can see moving to a condo with maintenance workers on staff. lol)

Oh, hear you there. Seems like the only sr. housing here is extremely high end or low income, neither of which we can do, so will tough it out in our little Cape Cod in Saratoga till the bitter end......

I'm escaping for a week March 2 to sourthern Caribbean. I need sunshine

Sounds like a great escape, dirthappy. My sister and her family are in Florida right now, and my kids are a bit envious, but I'm not minding the weather much right now. I guess if I had to choose a place to get away, it wouldn't be tropical, but that's just my preference. Send me to Italy, I'd love to see the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, or send me to the Rockies in the summer, or to Ireland in the spring. . . .

Laurel

Laurelin - I just looked at your 'page' to see where you are located and read about your DH's desire for a pipe organ. There was an article in a local magazine (which got thrown out) about the house shown for sale in the link. The seller's husband built the organ himself and as I recall, he built the room as well, to get perfect acoustics. He has passed and she needs to sell the property. Something to dream about, or if you have a cool $1.2 million laying around, you could buy it :-)

Here is a link that might be useful: Pipe Organ House

That property is a real dream, for both my DH and I. Wow and a half, it's amazing. Thanks for sharing it, but it's way out of our league. The stuff of dreams (and hey, we might as well dream big!). That house/organ looks like it was a real labor of love.

Laurel