Best:
Bugs die. If you've got real winter, the roaches never learn to fly or grow to the size of your big toe. Take that, Florida and Texas!
Snowflakes are a freakin' marvel. Find a piece of black cloth. Catch one. Really look at it. Be awed. Catch another. Completely different, equally
awesome...
No need for ice in your water glass. It's cold right out of the faucet.
Snowfall is the most peaceful weather, IMO. You can't be inside, watching the snow, and not feel a level of serenity--unless you think about having to shovel out first thing in the morning.
Snow shoveling is excellent cardiovascular exercise. A day I have to shovel is a day I don't have to get on the treadmill.
Women can be fairly lazy about shaving. And high heels. And flat stomachs that are undetectable under winter woolens.
Worst:
Grocery carts do not steer well in slush. Save those returnable cans and bottles for, oh, say five months?
Cars do not steer well in slush. Or stop.
The lanes get narrow as more and more snow is piled on the sides of the streets.
My husband gets real pissy when he sees my barefoot footprints in the snow, when I was just getting the paper or filling the bird feeder. Easier to dry off cold wet feet than to put on, lace up, unlace, and stow snow boots where it's OK for the melting snow to puddle, right? Right.
I can't store enough firewood for a fire every night.
It's harder to get out of bed when it's cold.
Maryn, who's lived where it's too hot
and where it's too cold
