Embrace the Day!

Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall, embrace it all the ever changing world around us. Ok it is Winter and while I love all the seasons, Winter is not number one. We have had "dry January". Not how the media writes the narrative of dry January, but for the Pacific NW a definite dry month. However, it did not start out dry. Loving my new rain gauge, we had 7.5 inches in the first 8 days. the wind has blown, and frigid temps remind you it is Winter. But, dry January is about to change. I thought March came in like a lion? January may have started like the lion and may end like it too.

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

– Anne Bradstreet

The air has been so dry, the static sparks in the sheets at night. Loving the fact the morning frozen dew is not around on the roads for slick walking. The mountains could use a little help with the snow pack to make our Summer better, but the good old Gorge, I am sure we will not get out of this cold snap without a little taste of frozen precipitation. The nights have been in upper 20's and the days trying to breech 40 and not making it. The wind chill has been playing its game, so the icicles form, the pet water bowl freezes each night and hoping as this new storm rolls in the transition to warmer weather that we see snow, not freezing rain.

My mood has been as I get older, not really into the snow ( it can stay in upper elevations), but what ever it is.....Mother Nature has her own idea how to play the game. So, prepare, stay warm, enjoy because it is what it will be.....embrace the day and the weather. Spring will be here soon enough.

“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.”

– Tom Allen

Isaiah 36-40

“Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and marked off the heavens by the span, and calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance and the hills in a pair of scales?"