green

If you were to open my ebooks menu on my ipad, you would see three lonely books. One of those is a guide to growing moss. I swear to you, a 250 page guide to growing moss. I am that boring. Even if you are reading this and are mocking me from a distance, you have to admit, sometimes moss can be kind of .... cute? Alright, maybe not cute. But nice though. Its like a little carpet out in the woods.

The green is going away. It does go out in a flash of color... and  I do love fall, but that green, the green of sunlight filtered through leaves, the green of moss creeping up a fallen tree in the middle of the woods, I love that green. I tend to have a hard time in the winter. I am an outdoor kind of guy, and the winter doesn't really bode well for me. Plus, I hate getting sick. As a teacher of disease prone, sneezing,  non-handwashing eighth graders, I do get sick in the winter. My plan this winter is to force myself to get out more. I am going to try skiing again. Take Chauc out for walks as often as possible. Still, its the huddling up, that mental packing it in that happens in preparation for the winter that kind of panics me. We could almost afford a fireplace this year. We are shooting for next winter. That might just be enough to turn around my feelings about the winter... snuggling up with a mulled cider. Yeah. It would be a whole different place.