Belonging to yourself... whatever that means!

"Here is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.  "
Ruth Stout

Right now our life is so up in the air,  I have no idea what "belonging to yourself" could possibly  mean. Hopefully if all goes well, in the coming weeks, I might have a better idea!

This mornings thoughts about winter

To be quite honest, it certainly doesn't look like winter as I look out my back window, but I'm sure that it does somewhere. If anything it looks foggy out there. I'm sure that all the little squirrels and birds are enjoying the nice temps which reminds me that I'm running out of food for the little guys.  I sometimes don't know how they do it! Anyway, I will finish this post with a quote that I found this morning...

"I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce."
Taylor Swift


***More Thoughts about winter...***

Thoughts about Winter on a cold windy night

Well, I just checked and there is nothing on TV tonight, so I decided to go down and re-arrange my Christmas room. Actually it is my HOLIDAY room and to keep everything sorted, I asked my husband to build me a wall of shelves so that I could keep everything organized. I thought that it would work beautifully, but it didn't take very long for everything to jumbled up into a mess.

Did I mention that everyone gives me Christmas houses?? Well, I climbed the ladder and put them up onto the top shelf. I HAVE A LOT!  With just the three of us at the moment, I don't always put them out. If we ever move home again, our granddaughter is going to have so much fun with them!! Anyway, ornaments came next... and somewhere I got this brilliant idea to have a formal tree and a family tree. That means twice the ornaments. They all needed dividing as well. And then I had to put my bathroom decorations into a box, another for the living room. One for the dining room... well you get the idea.

To make a long story short... my Christmas room is now THE CHRISTMAS ROOM. All of the other holidays have been sent to the attic. Yes, I filled the Christmas room and there is no space left for Halloween and Easter. I was pondering decorating for Valentine's Day... but decided that it might be a huge mistake. When we move, I have to take all of this stuff with us. Enough said...

For a long winter's night... a quote

Brew me a cup for a winter's night.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I'll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetheart fair.
Minna Thomas Antrim

Winter Chill Quotes

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. Stanley Crawford

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Beautiful Winter Quotes

Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! it is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these!”
Charles Dickens

Hot coffee and cold winter mornings are two of the best soul mates who ever did find each other.
Terri Guillemets

There is always something amazing to consider about winter. You just have to look deeply!

If we had no winter...

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant."
- Anne Bradstreet

As much as I dislike winter, you have to admit that Anne just might be on to something here! Have you ever seen a miserable kid?? Maybe we need to learn to play more. Can't remember the last time I actually "played in the snow"!!