Walls of ice encrust the lower cliffs where wave spray has frozen on the rock in Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. (Photo/U.S. National Park Service).
Walls of ice encrust the lower cliffs where wave spray has frozen on the rock in Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. (Photo/U.S. National Park Service).
6. It sends much of the riff-raff packing.
Benefits of the weather in Wisconsin!
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Here in the Western ‘burbs we just didn’t hit the predicted deep lows spoken of in the article. I guess twelve below, but not for any length of time. The temps have been in the negative single digits overnight, and up towards 10F in the daytime. Tonight in the wee hours, it’s right at zero.
To me, the benefit of the cold is the cold. It’s existential.
I’m completely comfortable.
I’m less cranky
Love to work, hike, bike, surf and snowboard
Less tics in the summer
Fewer sqeeters
Clear skies for star gazing.
Sound travels further
Warm cognac or beautiful scotches just plain taste better
Great time to be alone with a cigar.
Sleeping with the windows wide open.
Everything smells fresh.
Steak and red potatoes
Fried okra
Catfish feel like they are being drug through mud and you have no idea what size cat is actually on the line until you toss em on the shore and listen to them croak like frogs...erh catfish
I don’t sweat so dang’d much
Grey flannel suits
Friendship candles in the windows of homes, on the East Coast
The smell of ocean spray
Getting wet while sailing
Watching the giant waves crash against the shore and hearing God speak through the oceans awesome power, which soothes me
Shooting
Duck hunting
Pretending to hunt hogs and freezing your butt off while pondering all the beauty of God’s creation
Tracking deer and deciding their carcass would be more work than it’s worth and simply admiring their beauty....and wishing I had an ATV so I could take one....
Wishing for summer and fire flies and girls in shorts or dresses
The smell of a wood fire and crisping some marsmallows over it
Waisailing
Hot apple pie with a decent cinnamon crust
Hot and gooey cinnamon rolls
Snow
Ice
Water falls shooting over and through ice
Yosemite
Tahoe
Sea Horse Ranch
Auberge De Sole’
Napa
Girls in tight blue jeans
Girls who are cold and want to be warm
I could go on and on about cold weather. I love it.
Walking across the Golden Gate
Big Sur
Carmel
Marin Headlands
Point Bonita
Cambria and dinner at “Robins”
Hearst Castle on a clear and windy day
Hiking the cliffs anywhere in California
Campfire on the beach
Dolphin and whale watching
Deep sea fishing
Kayaking estuaries
Watching the San Lorenzo River when it swells from the rain and admiring its awesome power as it carries redwood trees and turns them into toothpicks
Winter cold....my favorite weather
Cutting down a Christmas tree, knee deep in the snow
Snow ball fights
Building igloos
Snow angels
6. crazy neighbors not screaming for their mother-effing cats to come home.
I have never ever seen a cockroach in Alaska, not even in the summer.
Actually in Alaska the majority of our rural roads are dirt and gravel, and are slow to use when dry, a horrid mess when wet but are as smooth as a new highway in the winter after the local grader makes a pass, and we have LOTs of road graders up here, the state will pay a private owner a ton of money just to keep the neighborhood graded, and any school route gets top priority to have a cleared and sanded road, not a lot of salt is used in Alaska but a lot of sand and 3/8ths minus rock is applied to school route roads.
“Only accessible during the winter months in very specific conditions, the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore ice caves along Lake Superior in Wisconsin, provide a memorable winter scene for those lucky enough to make the hike.”
Been there. Done that. Magnificent!