I hate the winter.

That's why I now live in Florida!! Winter always made me not want to do anything but feel depressed!

Yikes! My sympathies, mem. Winter is so much better when you only have to visit it.

Is it the cold that makes you want to stay inside?

Aawww I love winter... wrapping up warm to go outside then coming back to a cosy warm house and getting cwtched up on the sofa with a coffee or hot chocolate....

OK... so that's a rather 'romantic' outlook on winter (though I do do that...) but look at it this way... without winter, you wouldn't appreciate summer so much )

Absolutely nothing good about it. Cold and dark. Summer is bright and warm.

I'm a Florida Boy now for the same reason.

Here's a little poem I wrote after college circa 1996 lived in Buffalo at the time.

"When I woke up it was Winter"

It was Saturday night Long after the Tyson-Holyfield fight
when I stumbled on in for the rest.

While I was out I noticed no snow and with the warmth of last week I
thought we were blessed.


When I awoke. I was greeted by the precious quiet and calm of the season's first blanket of powder. But it wasn't that long for the flurries soft song to darken, chill and grow louder.

Now cold had set in along with the sun swallowing skies of the season. It made made my hopes freeze and shatter for no reason.

I had live a dream of friends and fun life had just begun and they said t would be so sweet.

With a masters degree I'd have so many options to choose from and opportunity would lay at my feet.

But as I've grown older I've grown wiser and have picked up a scent of the street.
It's a whiff of reality, the stench of society that lingers along with deceit.

Surely you've seen the clues. Haven't you read the paper or watched the news?

The truth aches my sole as the cold and the snow makes the skin on my hands start to splinter.

Man how I wish that I was still sleepng - Beacuase when I woke up t was winter.


Big E November 11, 1996

I feel ya. I really wish I was back in Thailand right now. Florida can get chilly and isn't nearly as much fun.

Sorry to hear that mem...

You could always move to my part of the world and keep me company. Our winters aren't as chilly as they are by you.

I personally love Winter. I love the promise that it bears; Nature has taken a nap today; in preparation of a day bursting with life tomorrow.

Hang in there buddy. Without Winter there can be no Spring!

Light therapy! Get a lightbox to fight Seasonal Affective Disorder. It could make winter a far more pleasant experience.

Yeah Hotmilf it is the cold that gets to me and having to bundle up just to take the garbage out. Last night I got caught in a Nor'easter (winter storm) and saw many spin-out on the Turnpike. I hope that by next year I can move to South Florida, and will only have to deal with this mess when I travel back up here for Christmas.

Thanks to all for you responses and advice.

i second what hotmilf sayed. ooh and dont forget to instal a fireplace, unbeatalble.

Winter is like Indian Summer only with harder water and colder temps. I hate them both.