Tis The Season

It's January, it's cold (sort of), it's white (for awhile), it wet (and sloppy) and it's icy (all the time). I digress, it's January, what do you expect? I live in the Northeast (CT) though I was raised in the upper Midwest (ND). I didn't think there would be a whole lot of difference in weather patterns but I was wrong. Weather that comes to CT can come from the Dakota's via Canada but we also get a whammy called a Nor'Easter where two systems collide, one from the north and a warmer/wet one from the south. Except for the bitter cold you end up with one doozy of a Storm.

I have a new found friend I call The Gripper. I put The Gripper on my shoes, they are made of rubber and gripper metal which enables me to walk on ice without slipping and falling. It's seems I've become prone to falling lately, twice in the last 2 months whereas I probably never fell once in 30 years even when I was "three sheets to the wind". Now I'm as sober as a judge but somewhere along the line my body has difficulty staying upright. I don't like falling, it really makes me feel insecure. So Grip and I have become fast friends.

Now you may wonder what January and my falling has to do with each other and the answer is simple. ICE. I have never in my life experienced as much ice as I have this year. Please, please, please give me snow without the prelude of ice.