What beautiful weather we are having this fall. Funny how all of our seasonal weather patterns are now so scrutinized in terms of that hotbutton “Global Warming.” The averages of the weather are just that, a way of explaining what things are normally like based on averaging all the data we have on hand. It may be warm now, and that may or may not have to do with anything other than it is just an above average year. Last winter we had a lot of snow but I’ll bet if we averaged snowfall out over a 25 year period it would not change that overall average amount of snowfull much (the important comparision being leaving our heavy snowfall year in and then out of the dataset). Anyway that was not what I was wanting to write about. The earth is getting warmer, based on the science and all the credible evidence I have seen but that is besides the main point.
I have been enjoying being out and about these past few weekends and even getting back and forth to work during the week. I doubt this nice run of above average temps will not last all through the winter so I will take whatever I can in this regard. While I have never been someone that “minds” the weather so much, just that as I get older things do seem to go easier if it the weather is pleasant. Trying to shovel a foot of snow, and having my bad back ache for days aftwards, makes things like snow not as carefree an event as it used to be in the past. And I did used to not mind all that digging out at all.
I am sure my son will enjoy the snow once he gets old enough to get around well in it. Then of course he will love having time off from school when he gets a snow day. That is surely a common experience for anyone who has grown up in areas where the winters include snow. Remembering those days when you had a day off from school and could go play in the snow instead! Of course it occassionaly happens that work gets “cancelled” for the same reason but it just was not the same as missing school. For me, it just leaves me with a day to catch up with later. What I like even better these days than a snow day out of work is a snowy day in work when most everyone else stays home. Those are days I can really plow through things at the office!
Alright, enough rambling opinionated dribble from me.