I have to admit it, I am not a big fan of winter and I feel some seasonal depression (aka Winter blahs) coming on. February is the worst! It is typically the coldest month we have, although this winter we have had some pretty cold days even in December.
In December I have to keep telling myself, “Just make it till Dec. 21st, the Winter Solstice!” Once I get to that shortest day of the year I know it is downhill from there.
Then comes Christmas, and I definitely do the 12 days of Christmas and beyond! I took down my inside decorations around the 21st of January.
So those decorations kept me in somewhat good spirits. But once they came down that was it, the winter blahs set in and here come the garden plans for this year! I am obsessed with my garden plans.
I have been post-it noting a million pages in my seed catalogues and watching gardening videos, I am even looking forward to mucking out the chicken coop in the spring thinking off all of the good compost that the chickens have been creating for me all winter!
But there is still February to deal with……I know I will make it through, as I do every year, but I sure won’t like it. At least when I leave work at 5:00 it is still light now and the amount of daylight is increasing everyday. And thanks to those Americans we now get daylight savings time even earlier!
We’ll meet again in March when my seedlings get started! For now I’ll rewatch some of my family’s YouTube Channel.
P.S. I just don’t see how any amount of St. Valentine’s Day chocolate is going to cheer me up, but my husband could sure try!