The Freelance Retort: The Winter Wall

The Freelance Retort by Brian Moloney

I’ve kind of hit a wall where winter is concerned.

Actually, I’d like to throw winter against a wall, pick it up and throw it against the wall again…and again…and again.

That’s just how I feel.

I know…everyone wants to talk about the weather, yet nobody really wants to hear about the weather, especially cold winter weather, like this.

It’s a conundrum.

Except for the fortunate people—or smart people—who live in warm weather climes, down south.

Those people like to get their schadenfreude on and will talk about the cold weather—our cold weather— just to rub our runny noses in it.

But up here, we don’t want to hear it…yet can’t seem to stop complaining, even though we know we’re all going through it.

And the truth is, the winter—this winter, right here in the lower northeast of USA—wasn’t all that bad until just a couple of weeks ago.

We actually had lawns of green, clear sidewalks and fairly comfortable temperatures.

The polar cold snaps were relatively short, usually followed by rebounding temps in the bearable 40s.

Whatever storms that rolled in, were either of the rainy variety or light snow dustings, which didn’t require more than a one handed shovel push down the walk.

Whereas, last year, the snows blew in right after the holidays, followed by another and another, until eventually the polar ice cap formed and mountains of ice made the sidewalks impassible, that is if you could even get over the barricades that had formed on every street corner, to reach the sidewalk.

And this pretty much lasted well into March.

But like I said, this year, January had been relatively kind to us, at least up until the end.

And February, it seems, couldn’t wait to pile on.

So it’s been like living inside your freezer for the past couple of weeks, and the frost free feature is on the fritz.

If you’re like, me….

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