Preparing for Winter V

Sassia

Funny you say that, mardatha. I love autumn and I'm scorpio. It must be related to when our birthdays are and the happy, nostalgic memories associated with our birthday season!

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Nope, I'm a Capricorn and I love both Autumn and Winter ( winter less so) but much preferable to the heat of high Summer. I've been looking after a poorly grandson for a couple of days and got home late last night really tired and He Who Knows had lit the stove in the evening, walking back in to a blissfully warm room was EXCELLENT!!! What I hate most in the heat is waking up in the night so hot that I'm wet through now that really IS discomfort.

westcoastscot

stunning here over the loch this morning - we have a pretty ground frost and a beautiful blue sky flipping cold though!!!! gloves and hat weather here

Gers

westcoastscot wrote: »

stunning here over the loch this morning - we have a pretty ground frost and a beautiful blue sky flipping cold though!!!! gloves and hat weather here

Same here - think we're quite close together! There's not any frost here, think it's to do with the sea.

I'm prepped. Small barn has dry and tinned goods, six packets of kindling, a years' worth of newspaper and UHT milk. Big barn has loads more wood. Freezer is full and I'm gradually defrosting the joints of venison and making the meat into meals. If push comes to shove I can heat food and water up on top of the woodburner, it's very effective.

Blankets are aired and ready though it's not cold enough to have them on the bed yet, I woke to find my feet sticking out of the duvet in the middle of the night.

I'm dreading the clocks going back this weekend, it gets so very dark here and there aren't any street lights for eight miles. I have to remember to park the car with the headlights facing the front door, parallel to the house, so that the courtesy lights help me find the door. There is a sensor light above the door but it only activates when right under it.

The good thing about winter is that we are heading to spring / summer which I enjoy so much. I'm a February baby BTW.

Eenymeeny

You might have something there with the birthdays. I'm a Libran and love to pack a picnic and head out to enjoy the Autumn foliage on my birthday It has to be something that we can eat in the car though as it has been known to snow!
I do admit that the darkness does get me down by the time Christmas is over, and I'm always so pleased when it's time to take the door curtains down and let some light in.
I'm a gardener and at the moment am aware of the jobs that I want done before it gets really cold and dark. Then I'll really hibernate!
Maybe it's just the Pollyanna in me...:o:)

mardatha

I love long dark cosy nights - the ones that start at 3.30pm in winter lol. Gers I live in a big city compared to you - we have THREE streetlights!

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mardatha wrote: »

I love long dark cosy nights - the ones that start at 3.30pm in winter lol. Gers I live in a big city compared to you - we have THREE streetlights!

haha, here is me imagining that you see only by moonlight. No lights here at all either

I am putting the stove ch on for a couple of hours every evening, just to keep the house temperature up enough, building fabric soon cools and takes days to warm up again. I have been waiting all year for this hibernation time, loving it

Laura_Elsewhere

I'm another Capricorn who loves both autumn and winter passionately - I've always said i have "reverse SAD" as I feel so much more alert and alive when the clocks go back in autumn, and so sluggish and slowed down in summer (most hot weather in Britain feels like I'm wading through waist-deep treacle to do anything or go anywhere!)

We have only a tiny rented flat, so I can't really do much for the dark season; someday I shall have different curtains and so on, and a wood-stack and everything!

Meanwhile, we do have a whole shelf of preserves made from foraged fruit over August and September, and that's not bad for living in a town in a flat

And I'm about to get our boxes of serious woollies out, and unpack them (re-pack the boxes with summer shirts and frocks and sandals and put those away)... definitely hat weather as well as fingerless mitts! I knitted myself new fingerless mitts recently but haven't yet got round to the hat to go with them - looking forward to it, though as it will cover my poor chilly ears very snugly!

mrs_motivated

Interesting this when you were born and your favourite season....I am Pisces , born in March and just love Spring, when everything starts bursting into life in the garden.

It's a dull dark day here and I've got laundry drying everywhere, I hate it. I was hoping to plant the last few Spring bulbs, but its not gong to happen today.

On the plus side, there is a lovely warming beef stew in the slow cooker.

westcoastscot

Gers think we must be neighbours for sure :-) Wondering now if I've bumped into you through work, or the co-op - how weird would that be???? Maybe we should go with oldstyle safetypin ID badge?:) see if we can spot each other???