I sometimes wonder why the hell I moved back to the Rockies. Shoveling snow day after day just to leave your house gets old really fast and so does freezing your ass off every morning. Incomplete projects lay half buried in the snow getting all weathered and damaged; just more shit to fix in the Spring. It's too cold to go outside and do anything but shovel snow until noon when it finally warms up a little, and then it's dark 4 hours later with subzero temps falling fast. When will this shit end? I absolutely detest hard winters like this! I hate Winter!
But then I see others. They don't hate the winter. Not only do they not hate winter, they actually seem to enjoy it! What the hell could be so special about cold, icy, messy snow? Oh I see now. It is a matter of perspective and position. Those who enjoy winter first are in the position to avoid it if they choose and this changes their perspective on it.
I hate winter but not really. What I really hate is the fact that I am not prepared for Winter... ever. Each summer I actually look forward to a relaxing Winter as some of my friends do, but it never works out that way for me. Summer projects drag out until Fall. Then shit happens, things get complicated, and then it snows. Once it snows, everything moves in ultra slow motion. There is all this dead work to do, just to get through the day; shoveling snow, building fires, and cooking mostly. Nothing gets done; money is lost each passing day and frustration mounds.
If only I didn't have to focus so much on survival in the Winter, perhaps I too could enjoy it, but when you wake up to it every day, it is nothing short of a nuisance. There are all these daily obligations and the work is never done. It's a hard life on the mountain Homestead. What is most ironic is that as much as I hate Winter time and snow, I make a living selling firewood!
