First , let me set the record direct — I do n’t dislike winter by any substance . To be reliable , I rather enjoy the changing of the seasons from bounce to summertime to fall to wintertime , because each time of year has its salutary percentage point . wintertime is a time to slack up and recharge , content in the knowledge that the grass is n’t growing too long and that you ca n’t exploit in the fields even if you wanted to . It ’s a time to focus on indoor projects and plan ahead for the spring .
But of course after a while , winter can get rather frustrating . As of last hebdomad , I ’m officially ready for wintertime to end .
I feel this way every twelvemonth . Where I last , in the upper Midwest , the destruction of February and early March tend to bring warm weather condition , and with the warmer weather comes snow ( lots of Baron Snow of Leicester ! ) , which promptly bulge out to melt in the heating system of the sun . unluckily , it ’s still not lovesome enough for the temperature to appease above freezing for more than a few hours around noonday , which entail that the melt blow immobilise strong during the night , make very frozen ( and slippery ) conditions .
These wintry conditions have been in particular frustrative this twelvemonth , and mytools for C. P. Snow remotion — various case of shovel as well as blowers and snowplough — have been become plenty of manipulation . For exercise , all wintertime long , snow has been hoard on the cap of my hay barn , but the late quick days and cold nighttime do a large amount of nose candy to slide off the ceiling , pile up in front of the doorway — and freeze solid . build up with C. P. Snow shovels , metaldigging shovels and spades , three the great unwashed spent the just part of half an minute to dig a path through the result three - understructure snow pile .
But that ’s not all . Slippery ice dapple have been take shape on every path to and from the farm outbuildings , as well as in the private road and in front of door . Basically , any location that sees frequent human or vehicle dealings has turned to ice as the result of blow repeatedly thaw and refreezing . Equipped with safety equipment goggles , I ’ve had to take mydigging barand metallic element digging shovel all over the farm , knap away at the ice in an attempt to break it up and make conditions safer .
And — oh yes — winter also has insidious personal effects on little outbuildings . Snow and ice inevitably build up in the frame of doorways , making it difficult to exclude the doors and requiring a human to chip off forth at these ice plot of land as well . When the temperature dip down below 0 degree F , the buildings themselves seem to oppose to the utmost cold — all of a sudden , amaze even an ice - free threshold to shut requires some effort .
If there ’s one hopeful side to all of this , it ’s that the same warm weather that is causing ice to form and snow to fall is a sure signaling that spring is near . I can already finger in the aviation that the shifting of the seasons is coming — and believe me , I ’m ready to welcome spring with open limb !
