December 9th, 2025 and I am outside "playing" in the snow. I think I have found a new form of therapy for people from Florida who haven't seen snow in decades.
I honestly expected to be too warm up here this winter. I figured if it was too cold outside I would just stay inside. You know I am always writing about living in a hot house when The Man is in town. Coming up to the farm for the winter I expected the thermostat to be set at 90 degrees so I would be wearing bathing suits trying to stay cool. It has turned out to be quite the opposite. I guess when it is you paying the heating bill the thermostat can stay set at 68. Now I am the one who is freezing.
I have plenty of "winter" clothes up here thanks to my BFF Jeanne. She is down in NY worrying that I am going to be too cold so she has sent me a fleece jacket, a puffy jacket, several pairs of wool socks, and a pair of warm sweat pants. She has also given me a scarf that she knitted. I am toasty !!!! I already had 2 winter coats up here that are short so I bought myself a long puffy coat with a hood and a pair of knee high snow boots. I have a super warm pair of gloves that the Navaho Indians sent me a year ago as a fund raiser. I am covered head to toe with love.
God sure has had his hand in my life these days. I never expected to be spending a winter in Northern Michigan. This was our summer retreat from the heat of Florida but God had other plans this year. I think He knew I needed some snow therapy and The Man needed me here to help him through his journey. The COPD is so bad these days and The Man is tired of all of it. We have had a lot of talks these past couple of days. I have always said he is a fighter and does not give in to weakness but he is tired of fighting. I totally understand but I don't know what to do to make it better for him. I guess I will do what I do best and just listen and be here. (Thus the need for "snow therapy").
Today was the perfect day for snow therapy. It snowed again last night while we were sleeping. There was about 6-8 inches of snow still on the ground from the last 3 snow "storms". Last nights snow covered up all the dirty snow and made the world all clean and sparkly. Until the guy who plows out the driveways showed up. I didn't get out early enough to walk out to the mail box in the new snow but the woods and field are still untouched so that's where I walked. It's cold out today. Minus 4 this morning but heating up to 18. (I may go for a swim!). I put on 2 pair of pants, a sweat shirt, fleece and coat, gloves, hat, scarf, 2 pair of socks and my high boots. I haven't had that many clothes on EVER !!!! Not even as a kid. But I was TOASTY !!! (I forgot to mention the half box of tissues in my pockets. Nothing like cold weather to clear out those sinuses.)
It is amazing out side. The sun is out and the snow is sparkling. The walk out to the mailbox is sheltered by all the tall pine trees so it looks quite magical. I stopped all along the way taking pictures of all the different trees with snow on them. I cut across the woods from one driveway to the other in pristine snow. There were some deer tracks that crossed the path but other than that nothing had been there before me. About half way through the woods I stopped to look up at the trees covered in snow. It was so quiet that I could almost hear the few snow flakes that were falling. I stood there with tears running down my face as I talked with God. HE knew exactly what I needed in that moment.
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