Reader Comments on Mary's Farm: How to Get Through Winter from YankeeMagazine.com http://www.yankeemagazine.com/rss/index.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:33:10 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-01/features/florida-winter Sounds just like us New Englanders-we hate the winter but we love the winter. We believe in our hearts that we are essential to our places and we are. For who else would stay on through bitter cold and snow up to the knees, runny noses and chilled hands and feet. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:24:14 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-01/features/florida-winter As a child I used to love the winter and couldn't wait for it to snow. Sled riding and ice skating were so much fun but alas, as the body grows older the cold, snow and ice are not welcome visitors. I would love to go somewhere warm for our 3 worst months - January February and March but my husband doesn't mind winter and he would probably have a nervous breakdown worrying about our house. So I choose to hibernate! It's an agreement we've made that the only time I leave the house is if I HAVE to - usually only for doctor appts. and emergencies. He does all the shopping and anything else that needs doing that requires going outside. Consequently very few people see me for much of the winter - but I do keep in touch and I do get visitors so it's not really bad. I never get bored as I have all kinds of projects to keep me busy. I've become the proverbial "Sign of Spring" to all my neighbors because when they see me outside they know winter is over! Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:05:10 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-01/features/florida-winter your winter is just toooo hard, edie! i would rather visit it through the warm, safety of your words. :) we are just too lazy to keep a wood stove going, and i become paralyzed in the first moderately deep snowfall! you continue to impress me with the energy and hard work it takes to survive those cold winters. brrrrrrrrrrrr. so you were a family of snow birds! we were in florida, too, during the very same years....but summer instead of winter. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:02:26 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-01/features/florida-winter Edie, you are so very right about "that Florida" not existing anymore! I moved to Miami just over three years ago to attend school here, and every day I yearn not only for the cold, but also the PEOPLE of New England. Florida is a materialist's fantasy land, and good sense and practicality are all but absent. I miss the genuine, hard-working nature of New Englanders and the beautiful scenery that accompanies the bitter cold. Sure, I am sitting outside on a "chilly" 74 degree day typing this, but is it worth it? To miss out on changing leaves, harvest season accompanied by apple picking, snowfall, the genuine need of a hot beverage, and getting to commiserate with your fellow yankees over frostbite? I say no! For all of those hoping to "escape" to Florida - think twice! You may gain a tan, but you'll lose so much more. Upon graduation, I will be readily re-donning my duck boots and ten pound jacket. And I pledge not to complain about the cold ever again. Or at least for a month :) Great article, Edie! Thanks! Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:55:24 +0100