Old man winter is here...

quick turn off the lights and pretend that nobody is home!

Published on November 20, 2005 By AvantiTexan In Misc

Winter has officially arrived. As I lay in bed this morning, debating the possibilities before me, either to shed the warm sanctuary of my bed or to continue to enjoy the blissful warmth and risk being late, it hit me. Summer is over. Fall never was. Winter is here.

I decided to crawl out of bed, hunt down my slippers (we have all marble floors) and brave the artic cold of the bathroom. All the time I was wishing I had turned on the heat the night before.

After my shower and shave, I put on exactly seventeen layers of clothes and sat down with my piece of Pandora cake and glass of red orange juice to re-read over my sermon. This was my fourth or fifth time to preach in Italian but I still have to read over and practice every word.

This afternoon we traveled to a little country town about 50 kilometers away to hold worship with an older Christian woman who lives alone. When we got there, it was snowing.

We live in a town right on the ocean. The summer is wonderful, the beach, the food the people, it is all good. The winter however, I am having a harder time accepting.

To be honest, I guess I need to decide if it is the cold that I detest so much or the heating bill…

Comments

Gideon MacLeish

on Nov 20, 2005

Old man winter is THERE, sure! Here we sit with a newly installed woodstove and too little opportunity to use it! (!)

Good to hear from you! How do the Italian winters compare with those back this way?

AvantiTexan

on Nov 21, 2005

Gid

Here we sit with a newly installed woodstove and too little opportunity to use it! (!)

That's great that you got that put in. Which room if I may ask? I used to love falls and winters there, the whole town fills with the smell of wood burning stoves...or the pig farm north of town, depends on from which direction the wind is blowing...

How do the Italian winters compare with those back this way?

In Florence it was basically the same, without the snow. It snows in all the moutains around Florence, but not in Florence proper too much. Here in Taranto it is alot more humid but the temperature is about the same. The difference is that there is NO air conditioning in the summer and little (and expensive) heating in the winter!

I'll try to send some cold weather your way, be patient thought, it might take a few days!

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