Quotes to start the year

Only when your heart is covered with snows of pessimism and ice of cynicism do you grow old. ~author unknown

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the Old Year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit. ~ Arthur H. Sulzberger

I don’t really have a New Year’s resolution to go on a diet or anything like that. I am who I am, and I don’t want to be somebody else. ~Karolina Kurkova

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Let it snow, let it snow

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For a while, it was looking like a brown Christmas.  We had snow a while back, but thanks to the constant up and down temperatures, that went away quite fast.  This past Sunday, however, that changed.

I woke up, went to get my coffee started and have an orange (because I spent Saturday feeling deathly ill and couldn’t stomach anything) and stopped to look out the window.  It was hard not to.  The sight of white covering everything was really quite odd.  Not in the “what the hell is that” kind of way (I save that for May if it snows), but more like the “wow, is it ever bright out” kind of way.

Having the snow before Christmas is sort of the thing to have.  I grew up always seeing snow, always having snow on the ground in December.  But going away in March (as it should, because by then most of us are sick of it, except for those crazy snow mobile enthusiasts).  It just wouldn’t be Christmas if the ground was bare.  Which I’ve seen in the past.

Rosetown, looking down main street. In summer, not winter. Prairie Centre Credit Union building in the foreground. Image via Wikipedia

I think one of the strangest times was a little over ten years ago, when I lived in Rosetown.  We had a good deal of snow and some odd weather patterns.  We already had a white out early December, which made for an exciting time at work and a little harrowing.  Christmas came and went, and then along came New Year with some incredibly warm weather.  So warm, in fact, that the city of Swift Current and the town of Leader had a New Year’s Eve Golf tournament.  I never heard about the results, but I did hear a lot of people went, mostly to say they went golfing in Saskatchewan on January 1st.  The lead up to the New Year had been really warm, so the organization was fast, and grounds cleaning took a couple of days so things were ready.  And, naturally, most everyone hoping that the temperature wouldn’t just plummet by the time of the tee off.

I’m not holding out much hope that this snow we have now will stick around.  According to Environment Canada, we’re supposed to have a high of 5 Degrees Celsius (41 F).  A temperature that warm, snow will melt.  Won’t completely go away, but the rest of the week looks to be in the same range.  Which is kind of odd for December.

Just hope January and February is kind.