Um, I should probably look at a weather report before I say this, because maybe I will discover that it’s actually gonna be a lot colder than it is now, but the last couple days have been quite warm. Yesterday was very warm in comparison to what it has been and the sky was blue and right now we’re getting some precipitation as rain, which is not what we’ve been getting previously. So, I’m really hopeful that things will start to warm up a little bit.
This is the time of winter that it gets pretty old. I try not to have that attitude because we live in Michigan and I love having all four seasons and this is just part of that but every year it kind of catches me off guard, like, “Man, this is still happening.” And it’s just the grey skies. Like, I remember that, couple years ago, I went up to Marquette around this time of year and was like just shocked at how blue the sky was and it was sunny and it wasn’t just a “that day” kind of thing. People were like, “Oh yeah, it’s like pretty typically like this.” So even though there’s snow and it’s cold there is still that sun. And I’ve probably talked about this before, but Grand Rapids, I think, is one of the most overcast cities in the nation. Like, more so than Seattle. And it’s easy to think that you wouldn’t be affected by it until you’re in the depths of February, and, of course, you’re being affected by it.
So, yeah, I’m just hopeful that maybe we’ve turned a corner or that we’ll have a couple sporadic days in the next few weeks of nice weather to offset the continued grey skies and cold weather. Um, I’m not foolish enough to think that we are headed towards spring just yet. I know we’ve got another few months probably of winter, um, or at least a solid month of proper winter and then, you know, the slush and rain and all of that transition period. But, um, my — I’ll just say my desire for next week, maybe it’s too ambitious to say I’m looking forward to it. We’ll see what the weather report actually tells me, but my desire for next week is that we have a couple more days that are nice.