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My countdown clock to opening day of camping season shows 72 days as of today (February 17th.) May 1st seems so far away.
Why am I spending so much time staring at this countdown clock? Well, as you may know, I hate the winter months in this Northeastern portion of the country. No, I am not going to move to a warmer climate. Most of those areas have their own weather issues.
I just need to get through this winter and then enjoy what we hope to be a great sprng, summer and early fall. I do blame Mother Nature for giving us mild winters the past few years. I got too used to that. Last year I only had to clear snow a couple of times, and that wasn t much to talk about.
Do you ever think to yourself, I wonder who gets up and puts ALL THOSE CLOSINGS online when the weather gets bad? Today, I ll pull back the curtain. It s me. I do it. I get up really early in the morning (and sometimes the night before) and sit in bed and drink coffee and enter closings onto our closings page. Glamorous right? Well, I ve done it for the last ten years. I could think of worse jobs that aren t all snuggly warm in bed.
Anyway, so I finish up my closings today - or at least get to a point that I don t see any new ones right now - and I pop over to the National Weather Service Facebook page to see what fresh crazy I can expect. And they didn t disappoint.
As I ve gotten older, I spend less and less time outdoors in the winter. I m not saying it s a good or bad thing, it just is what it is. Maybe I m getting less tolerant of the cold, or maybe less tolerant of standing around an icy hole, for a flag that never pops. Or snowshoeing through fresh snow doesn t have the allure it once had.
However, that doesn t stop most of the rest of the population of Maine who are avid outdoors people. Mainers love to get out and ice fish, snowmobile, hike, even camp in the winter. While it sounds like a softer spot to sleep on, having to put on a snowsuit to go out and take a whizz at 3:00am when it s -10, is not my idea of fun.