What I love about winter

[Sir Birdaholic]

No mosquitoes here where I live , just ticks,chiggers, & more ticks & chiggers. Maybe an occasional fly, but mainly TICKS & CHIGGERS!!!

(SORRY, had trouble with skeeter spelling.)

 

[ChickenDreamer]

I love that we were able to build an ice rink and hang lights and watch my children learn how to skate like I did when I was a child. Oooo, and hot cocoa!

 

[Kismet]

Winter is a time for dormancy - a time for reflection, time for planning the new garden, time for the wood stove burning all day with a never ending soup/stew simmering. I hunker down and look forward to Maple Sugar season, then Mud season, then Black Fly season, which finally corresponds with SPRING!

 

[Hoosiermomma]

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....I love winter b/c I know that in just a few short months it will be Spring!!!!!

 

[LizFM]

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In Wales, maybe

Not in Kansas and Nebraska. That was the worst part about farming in the winter in our part of Kansas. Winter was more mud season than anything else. It would snow, then after a few days the snow would melt and it would be nothing but mud (especially since grass wasn't growing because of the cold).

Then it would get cold and the ruts would freeze. Winter meant cold but (except for years like this year) not snow. And deep cold (too cold to snow) that froze pipes. And ice storms that brought down trees and branches and took out electric lines.

Temps would go back and forth between freezing and 50 or even 70 degrees most of the winter. There was almost always at least one January day a year you could go outside barefoot.

We always said we would have preferred to live further north (like Minnesota) where, once it got cold, it *stayed* cold. Snow cover all winter long would have been much preferable (unless the wind blew and it drifted).

 

[stephys_fluffybutts]

I hate it
Gets in the negatives and have to keep everyones waters from freezing.
It wouldnt be bothering me so much. But NY winters are the worst (in my opinion)

The only upside is that I spend a little more time in the house with the indoor pets.
so other then that.....

 

[MagsC]

I love winter because on weekends I can stay all day in my flannel pajamas if I want.

I also love the clean/cold smell of the air and the purity of new fallen snow.
And I used to love dog sledding though havent done that in a long while.

 

[mamagardener]

hanging around the house in your jammies, and not having to worry about bugs, weeding, or general upkeep of the yard and garden. The sight of a frozen waterfall. Making a snowman with my kids.

 

[BellLisamo]

is the warmth of my wood burning stove

is the fun times the kids and i have in the snow (that we get maybe 1 time a year here in az hahah)

 

[usschicago1]

The feel in your mouth when you chewing gum and you step outside and your like WOW that feels good.