Winter. What do you like the most about winter? What do you like the least? How does your schedule change during the winter months?

Winter is not my friend. The thing I like the most about the winter, if I could take one without the other, would be the visual. I do love taking in a view of a fresh new snow, glistening trees with ice, the sun shining on it, glistening like a thousand jewels. There is something refreshing about the white landscape, or the snow on the trees. I love it visually.

However, because I have to get it out in, day in, day out, it is these exact things that I like the least about winter. The snow. The ice. The coldness of it all. The anxiety of walking from point A to point B without taking a spill. I have already broken my arm once from slipping on ice. It is not something I would like to experience again. I live in a small town, and getting from my home to my job, is usually pretty simple. The snow plows are out early. Because they are city streets, my speed isn’t much over 30. So, even if its slick, I get more anxiety from walking in the stuff than I do driving.

My schedule doesn’t change much with the onset of winter, other than wearing a heavy coat on a daily basis. We watch the news every morning, regardless of the time of year, so winter doesn’t change that aspect of our lives. We do watch for school closings, though. But for the most part, not a whole lot changes. My Explorer is parked under a carport at home, so scraping windows isn’t an issue there. It is unprotected at my morning job (secretary at our church), so on occasion, I have to scrap ice when I leave at noon; but then I have the luxury of parking under another carport at my afternoon job, at the trucking company. I do have to travel 10 miles to get there, but by noon, unless we are still in the middle of the winter storm going through, the snow plows and county trucks have done a good job making the highways clean, and so I trapse off to my afternoon place of employment. Very seldom does my schedule change, whether its summer or winter.