Spring is very cathartic for me. Seeing the new growth of the leaves on the trees and the flowers pushing their way out of the ground gives me a new lease on life that winter has been slowly draining out of me day by dreary day. Don't get me wrong. I like winter. I appreciate it for what it is. However, I'm very glad when it's over. Here are as many reasons why as I could think of...in no particular order.
No more shoveling and salting sidewalks.
No more scarves and coats and gloves.
No more warming up the car before you go somewhere.
No more dirty black scabs on the ditches and road sides.
No more bundling up the kids like Eskimos before they can go outside.
No more sub-zero windchills that cut through you so deeply that they seem to partially freeze your soul.
No more getting up in the pitch black darkness that looks exactly the same as when you went to bed.
No more going days, maybe even weeks, without seeing the sun.
No more snow.
No more boots.
No more filthy cars streaked with road salt that looks like volcanic ash.
No more waiting to wash said cars because it's so cold your doors will freeze shut even though once it's warm enough for them not to freeze shut, the roads will be so messy it won't be worth washing your car anyway.
No more chiseling your way into your car after the sleet has turned to snow encasing it in ice.
No more bracing yourself the the chill when you walk outside.
No more reluctance to shave because of what the wind is going to do to your freshly peeled face.
No more taking your shoes off when you come inside.
No more shoveling black sludge stalactites out of your garage because they have fallen off the bottom of your car.
No more shoveling the driveway.
No more procrastinating on shoveling the driveway because you hope your neighbor will do it for you because he has a snow blower and you don't.
No more worrying about the ice dam that is forming against the house.
No more icy driving conditions.
No more hoping the snow plow will do your street before you have to go to work the morning after a storm so you don't have to end up shoveling yourself out 5 times to make it the 25 feet from your driveway to the main road.
No more traffic jams caused by a single snowflake because people forget how to drive when it snows.
No more plastic over your windows.
No more using the Foreman grill because you can't grill outside.
No more carving out the snowbank in front of your mailbox so that the mailman won't have to lean an extra 6 inches out of his jeep and will actually leave your mail without the passive aggressive note that tells you to clear out the snowbank in front of your mailbox.
No more parking lot slime that makes you slip and sticks to your shoes because it's too cold to melt and has too much salt to freeze.
And finally... no more having to put shoes on to go out on the deck to yell at your dog who is in the back corner of the yard barking his head off even though it is brutally cold and if he stands there much longer his paws will freeze and his arthritis is going to kick in and then you'll probably have to go carry him up back up the stairs.
Happy Spring everyone!!!!!
