Winter is taking its toll. I’m not only bored by the long
days inside, I’m depressed and logy. And I’m in Florida, missing the fifty
inches of snow piled in my yard, the repeating storms and bad roads, the
shut-in feeling when the night falls at four pm.
We’ve had our bad weather here in the Panhandle. It snowed
twenty miles North an event that occurs every thirty or forty years. Rain has preceded
every storm in Georgia, South Carolina, on up. Heavy rain that keeps me inside
and makes the internet connection act like a drunken butterfly.
In between the storms has been an unbelievably thick fog. If
you remember the horror movie, “The Fog,” then you have a good idea what it’s
been like taking the dog for his necessary walk.
The isolation has drained any energy from my muse. I want to
sleep late, go to bed early and eat comfort foods. I know that sounds familiar.
Ah, hot tea, popcorn, chocolate, I could go on for hours.
When I spent the winters in Connecticut I had a few tricks
to get
me through the draggy days. I had a fish tank with a grow light under
the hood. Surprisingly, watching the little guys dart around made me smile. A
mood enhancer. I graduated to several potted plants under a grow light. I set
it on a timer to glow twelve hours a day and put it next to my desk. Seeing
tiny shoots of green grow helped to remind me that spring was around the
corner.This too shall pass.
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