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I coulda slept in!
TEd
Just looking for y'all's opinions. I have my idea, but I'm interested in yours.
I will spill my beans eventually.
Eliot gives some reasons:
"Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
a little life etc. "
I agree with these lines, but for me there's more to it.
It's a cruel season because it's playing winter/summer all the time. One day of summer promise , four days of retreat into winter. Unsettling, uneven. As a child already I could not wait for spring to pass into summer. Looking at those green buds on the trees that took endless time to become leaves. I hated that.
I enjoy spring much better now, but still prefer the other three seasons.
I find February can be a pretty cruel month as it is generally the coldest month of the year. There are times that your finger-tips can freeze in under a minute if you've no mittens on.
-1 I stood out in the wind and cold for 5 hours watching my son’s track meet. Good hot cocoa barely raised my core temperature by a degree.
+1 I do love the red budding maples and saffron crocus though.
+1 My son did very well and did not injury himself during the competition, nor did any of his teammates, although with several fewer layers of clothes, they looked mighty cold.
Summery: 0.
It’s a wash, but I like it a bit warmer – no offense Jackie.
But it's the month when you really start noticing that the days are getting longer.
WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale fowles maken melodye,
That slepen al the night with open ye,
(So priketh hem nature in hir corages:
Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The holy blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke.
(It was an annotated version of The Canterbury Tales that kindled my interest in etymology, when I was a child).
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But it's the month when you really start noticing that the days are getting longer.
Aye, so you notice that it's colder for longer.
Doc. Drat said: "post ahead" .
And daylight lasts till 10 PM. So over to hogwash.
Last edited by BranShea; 04/14/2007 4:20 PM.
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