Friday, January 9, 2015

Winterwonderland--A Fur Coat Chronicle



My personal cold weather strategy is a fur coat we bought Mom for Christmas in 1970s when the middle class still could. Old, a tad tattered now, still so warm the temp has to be below zero and the wind above 20 mph to wear it. Otherwise, you sweat like a wrestler!        

            No. 2 cold weather strategy is a quilt. You must sidle around the outside of my living room, as the center is filled with the frame. Wednesday while I sewed, the wind whirled the snow up sparkling the air to the tops of the trees. A perfect marvel of a winter day: bright sun casting blue shadows on the pure white snow.

            Another strategy is visiting friends with fireplaces and wood stoves. Vince & Alyce also have a bird feeder with a plethora of cardinals, juncos, a variety woodpeckers, who flitted back and forth to the feeder, fluffing themselves for warmth as we drank hot coffee and munched ole fashioned gingerbread and anise cookies.

            Critical Eye says eat your heart out Florida and Pheonix!

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