Thursday, January 8, 2015

Ideas for Cold Winter Days

What do you do when the temperature is below -10 degrees and the windchill is about -20 degrees... besides pout I mean?

1.  Take a nap.  
2.  Snuggle up and have a cuppa whatever floats your boat.
3.  Call your Mom.  No really.  She's bored, too,  and not as able to get out and ignore the weather.   (You know you could if you were motivated to do so).
4.  Design a new garden, even if it's imaginary.  In fact even better if it is.  The sky is the limit now.
5.  Make soup, or stew, or chili.  Get out your cookbooks and really get into it.
6.  Take some of the gallons of soup you just made to a soup kitchen and then volunteer to serve it.
7.  Count your blessings- including warm clothes and heat as you stare at your frozen garden.
8.  Start dog earring your new plant catalogs that are clogging your mail box.
9.  Go to the library. Check out beautiful garden coffee table books with titles like Paradise in Tuscany or something similar!
10. Look at all the magnificent pictures you took of your garden last summer.  Study them. Make a list of future to do's and dreams.
11. Now if you've done all that...you deserve a nap!... but if you are still restless there are always drawers and closets to clean out and organize.  Choose to do one a day until you've done the whole house...that should take you until spring and better weather!  (Ha!)  Bonus: You won't have to do any spring cleaning then and you can devote all your time to the garden!

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