Day 356
I, once again, am writing this post in the wee hours of the morning. The middle of the night. Breakfast time, if I were an owl or vampire.
However, if could be late afternoon. Okay, late afternoon on a very gray day … but afternoon nonetheless.
It is so LIGHT out, that just a bit ago while I was letting the dogs out for their final roaming of the yard, I sat in the family room with all the lights off and could actually ALMOST read the print in the magazine I had been reading. The room was that light! Weird.
I still think the lightness here is whacking out people’s biorhythms.
At least I think it’s whacking out mine!
I don’t ever seem to SLEEP!
And that’s not by choice … or defective mattress … or physical pain … it’s just so light out all the time, I lose track of time or I can’t fall asleep or I can’t stay asleep. It’s ridiculous. I’d be a horrible resident in Alaska! I’d need those room darkening shades pulled down tightly and I’d have to wear a cute eye mask all the time. Don’t think I’d like that though I probably should do it here!
And, while Chicago is NOTORIOUSLY illuminated (those crazy, orangy light-bulbed street lamps cast an eerie, alien-ish glow) … it is even more so when there is low cloud cover or … snow.
And yes, we have snow. Finally! After 335 days Chicago finally got snow. And at a whopping 1.1 inches … it’s the first snow in 11 months and the latest snow of any winter season! Ultra weird!
I “shoveled” just as easily as I could have swept today. I realized that nothing melts here like in CO and thought I’d best get the foreign white stuff off my driveway and sidewalks before it froze. And with a corner lot I have a LOT more sidewalks than I ever imagined! I was really glad the snowfall was dry and like fluff.
However pretty this is, I’ll take rain over snow any day.
Ted up in the PNW (Pacific Northwest) says he’d take 20’s and clear/cold over 30’s/40’s and rain whenever possible. He said it has been unseasonably warm and dry up there this past week and he ran in shorts tonight. Better than running in rain any day!
Sam says she’ll take 60’s/70’s and bluebird skies any day. But yet she’s a rain/gray sky and snow person, too. It’s been in the 60’s there this week … warm and dry with nary a flake in sight.
My brother saw a butterfly, a honeybee and a hornet all in the same day last week … in JANUARY … in COLORADO. Weird. Mother Nature is messed up! The northern front range had its first forest fire of the season last week, as well. NEVER a good sign when the fire season starts in January! Unless they have a wet spring, this summer could be devastating.
Anyway, as much as I like rain the snow is pretty and I know it won’t stay around too long. We are to be nearly 50 come next week. I feel fortunate that this winter, so far, has been so mild. I know Spring won’t be too far off.
Well, it’s late, though I wouldn’t know it from the lightness outside. I’m off to bed … guess I should go find me an eye mask!