Different kinds of cold.
For years I've been corresponding with people from Furrin Parts--Australia, Europe, Cananada, Back East (between the Miss. river and the eastern seaboard), Texas (warrants a mention all its own), New York (ditto)...and most of those places, come wintertime, have it far worse than us. We have occasional snow, once a winter or so. We have rain (well, the Hoh Rainforest is practically in our backyard).
And, we have cold.
For years, my foreign correspondents have said "You want to hear about COLD, well, foof, it was X degrees HERE this morning," and I guiltily agreed, because don't we live in a "temperate" zone? Isn't this USDA Zone 8 or thereabouts?
Hah. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the renowned knitter and knitting author, had occasion to visit Port Ludlow recently for a knitting/fiber arts retreat. (Just down the road, near Sequim.) She is a resident of Toronto and knows from cold--matter of fact, I was just reading something she wrote in which she mentions how snow underfoot has a distinctive sound at fourteen degrees fahrenheit. Want to know what she said about our cold November rain?
I was cold. Cold hands, cold feet - I was under-prepared for the deep damp chill of the Pacific Northwest this time of year. It[...]is a committed and fierce sort of chilly that gets right into you and can only be relieved with warm baths, hot tea and woolly things.
And, we have cold.
For years, my foreign correspondents have said "You want to hear about COLD, well, foof, it was X degrees HERE this morning," and I guiltily agreed, because don't we live in a "temperate" zone? Isn't this USDA Zone 8 or thereabouts?
Hah. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the renowned knitter and knitting author, had occasion to visit Port Ludlow recently for a knitting/fiber arts retreat. (Just down the road, near Sequim.) She is a resident of Toronto and knows from cold--matter of fact, I was just reading something she wrote in which she mentions how snow underfoot has a distinctive sound at fourteen degrees fahrenheit. Want to know what she said about our cold November rain?
I was cold. Cold hands, cold feet - I was under-prepared for the deep damp chill of the Pacific Northwest this time of year. It[...]is a committed and fierce sort of chilly that gets right into you and can only be relieved with warm baths, hot tea and woolly things.