Looking Back at Older Posts
Woman in the Middle | January 22, 2016I use the WordPress template for this blog ( which means nothing to those of you who don’t blog). It was the template I started out with and the one I am comfortable with. I like that it comes with pages of statistics about how many people visit my blog and what they read while they are here. I find it intriguing that, on an almost daily basis, someone is going back and looking at older posts of mine. Like, two years ago older.
Day before yesterday someone looked at a post I did from two years ago this month titled “The Year Without Winter.” I had no memory of what that post was about so I went back to read it myself. I was reminded that, as of January 2014, we hadn’t had much of a winter. I was very tired of warm weather, sun, and all that jazz. Without that blog post, I would have never remembered that.
I am here to tell you, I won’t be writing a post like that this year. While the anticipated El Nino rain storms have not quite materialized (which I blame on all our efforts to get ready for them – roof repair, sandbags, trenches dug…) it has been a cold winter, at least for us thin blooded native Southern Californians. For those of you who live where there is snow, I will rephrase that – It has been a slightly cool winter.
When I mention to Hubby that it is colder than normal this year, he just blames it on me setting the heater at 68 degrees. What can I say, I am trying to be both environmentally conscious and fiscally prudent. However, this year I have not been either. I actually set the thermostat at 69 or 70 on a fairly regular basis, in a desperate bid to get warm. So that isn’t a good argument.
Part of the problem is the house we live in now. Our old house faced west. It always got a good dose of sun on its back in the morning and an even better dose on the front in the afternoon. This was wonderful in the winter and horrible in the summer. This house faces more northwest. That makes it much nicer in the summer but it stays much cooler in the winter. I run around in sweats in the house, then go outside and discover it is actually a reasonably pleasant day.
I finally have scientific proof that this winter is colder. Honey had stopped shedding! That dog produces so much hair! Since she is a 90% indoor dog now, in her old age, her shedding has ramped up to be a year round thing. We sweep all the time. But, in the last few weeks, I realized that I haven’t has to sweep as much. On closer examination, I realized Honey has gotten furrier and fluffier. Spring is going to be a misery, but, right now, she is keeping all that fur to herself, to keep warm in our rough California winter.
FYI – we had a warm day yesterday, for some reason. It was 78 degrees. Now, that is my kind of winter!
I look back at older posts too, but only a few weeks back to see comments from people.