Monday. Brrr

It’s chilly today, a sweater is a good idea and maybe even a jacket.

I type that with a slight pang of guilt, as it seems that everyone in the uppermost part of our great Nation is buried under 10 feet of snow!

I remember mornings of scraping ice and snow off of my windshield, freezing fingers and toes, and proclaiming in my best Scarlet O’Hara voice “As God is my witness, as long as I live, I swear, I’ll never live in the cold again!”

And I moved back to the South.

We’ve got a few cold-ish days every now and then, but nothing like what some of you are experiencing. My body is simply not suited for the extreme climates. It doesn’t matter what I put on, how many layers, or what space age material my underwear is made of… If it’s below 40 degrees….you’ll find me curled up somewhere in a shivering heap of frozen wimpy.

It might be because I’m thin. It might be because I don’t have a whole lot of muscle on my frame to generate any kind of internal warmth. It doesn’t really matter… you don’t have to tell me twice to come inside for a cup of hot chocolate.

It’s cold, and I’m going to bundle up today, in my new battery operated warming socks available from your local Bass Pro Shop retailer….hunting department is my guess. I got a pair for Christmas this year and they rank right up there with the best things I’ve ever received!

Happy Monday!