Once upon a time
I loved to play in snow.
I was 8 during the winter of 67, and what a great winter playground THAT was! Snow forts, snow tunnels, igloos you could park a car in! My neighbor’s dad actually made a big rectangular igloo and parked his car in it for quite a long time, that winter.
of course he drove a Nash Metro. You could park it in a fitted sheet.
But it was not to be, for me. See, the first morning of the blizzard, my neighbor Gary cut my eyelid almost off with a spade.
So the very best memories of my youth were taken from me by a goofy neighbor kid; that’s where it all began.
Two years hence I was relegated to shovel duty for real. I was expected to get the sidewalk and the driveway pad clean; dad used the plow on the driveway proper. At no time did I enjoy these duties.
Fast forward thirty years, and I have a 4wd truck and a snowblower. Life, in winter, is a lot nicer. No longer required to shovel snow, I can actually make it through a winter without a major coronary.
Still doesn’t make it fun.
XRT, which was a cool radio station about thirty years ago, used to run these spots, which I enjoyed a great deal. Me, I’m thinking of moving someplace warmer. It will get me prepped for my final destination, so to speak.
Last week for a while in hatheg-kla Pontiac. Hope to make the most of it.
XRT was the best station on the dial for years. Good radio is one of the few things I miss about Chicagoland.
For the past several years, we’ve gone to Florida for a couple of weeks (antique engine/tractor shows). The taste of it has enlightened me as to the attractiveness of a warm climate during the northern Winters. I now understand why oldsters like to go South when the cold weather strikes.
During days like today, 10 degrees, blowing, and snowy, I am sore tempted to drop the trailer on the hitch ball and head out. The wife & I keep asking each other why we’re still here.
And what do you answer each other?
Hawaii is a re-occurring retirement thought of ours, but their taxes are worse than here in California, and forty years being run insane by Democrats has lead to the Stupid Party vaporized and almost vanished, while a disastrous Democrat-driven status-quo establishment is based on State hand-outs, leveraged business and real-estate wealth, and patronage of privileged classes – while the actual cost is that many or most native-born Hawaiians are forced to move to the mainland where it’s less expensive, just to get jobs and to survive, or else survive as a Welfare Class on the margins of the Estate Class (Democrats). Democrats are all class-warfare, all the time.
I fled the peoples republik of New Jersistan 11 years ago. Moved to the Gunshine state of Florida. Like south Florida. Work was not as good nor as remunerative. The weather was FAR better. Taxes are much lower, no state income tax, lower property taxes.
The state govt. is run by (mostly) conservatives.
AND you can get your concealed carry licence essentially for the asking.
Now after 11 years, 65 degrees is COLD! and the only ice is in my cooler thats full of Guinness Extra Stout.
Roger
You put Stout on ice? Philistine!!