Enough already!

 

As I sit here with my coffee and a bowl of grapes its snowing outside.

 

Again.

 

I really do think that Mother Nature has to show Old Man Winter

who wears the pants in the family

She has indulged him long enough and its time to stop.

 

 

I realize its only the end of January

and spring is still almost three months away

and yes, I chose to live here

and yes, I love living here

and yes, I do enjoy the snow

and yes, we do have beautiful winters

 

 

but when I step off the shovelled pathways to the shed, the wood shed, the garage, the garbage shed

(or lose my balance, because those pathways are getting narrower and narrower)

and step into snow past my knee-high boots, past my knees for that matter

I say enough.

 

Monty has to step off the pathways

where he is not allowed to poop (though sometimes does anyways)

and tries to crouch high enough in the deep snow so that there is a bit of space left between him and the ground or risk a poopy butt. (great mental image eh?)

I think even he says enough

 

 

In the last two days my husband and I have accumulated

a total of 6 hours shovelling.

Six hours out of our lives that will never come back.

The snow banks are higher than me in places.

He says enough.

 

 

The days are getting longer

Sunset this evening is at 5:03 precisely

by the time the longest day comes around all this snow will be gone.

 

But where will it go?

The irony is that we have to hope for a slow melt and a late spring

because it's going to be a muddy mess

That goes without saying

We have four seasons here, green, yellow, white and brown.

But this year's brown season is going to last forever.

 

 

So Old Man Winter, stop sticking your tongue out and saying "Nyah, nyah you can't get me"

 

We say enough.

 

(old man winter picture is not mine and was found on Yahoo Images linked to this blog)