I love winter. I promise I do.

I feel I need to clarify something.

I like winter.  I like all four of the seasons.  I just don't like experiencing all four seasons in one day.

What's not to love about winter?

Comfort food = good
Fataflauge clothing = good
quilts = good
cozy = good

I have no problem with winter.  I am not a huge fan of the shorter days but even that doesn't bother me because I do love getting into bed and not having it still be light outside.

Here is my issue.

A tender Tennessee Christmas is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be.  If you are going for a Norman Rockwell, snowman laden, cute hat scarf glove combo wearing, coat needing winter that is just not what Tennessee has to offer, any more anyway.  I do remember them from my childhood but that is just not the hand we have been dealt currently.

Currently a good Tennesseean will experience the temperatures of all 4 seasons in one week not allowing the individual to pack away any of their wardrobe because you just might need that short sleeve top in December you just don't know.

A Tennessee native also has no trust in their weather man and quite honestly thinks they are being paid off by the grocery stores because if the slightest bit of snow is predicted we all storm the stores for what we will "need" if we are to be snowed in.  Please understand that this has only in my lifetime been once, but it was bad, and we Tennesseeans remember.  Bread and Milk is the joke but to be quite honest my go to is caffeine, chocolate and the ingredients for things I could bake it I got bored.

Driving.  It's just not done, in a normal sense anyway.  Now, if you are thinking of a "Hold my beer" type driving by all means that is a form of entertainment but as far as getting to work?  No.  We can't do that.  Sorry.

You see there are not just four seasons in the south.  Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall while ideal is not what we have.  We have Winter, grey cold rainy death, Spring, another bit of grey cold rainy death, Summer, hotter than hell summer, spontaneously combust, pseudo fall, summer, actual fall, happy winter wonderland Christmas time but it is 60 degrees and  winter.  This order varies at will and can bounce as randomly as this train of thought I seem to be blessed with.

Go out...Be Kind!