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Saturday, February 2, 2008

What's in a Name?

Frozen Tundra Chronicles is what I named my blog. On the surface, it refers to where we live i.e., deep in the heart of Green Bay Packer country. The ground in Lambeau Field is referred to as the Frozen Tundra and, certainly, we have found that every day is a Packer day as far as the news is concerned. There's the season, the post-season, the picking apart of the season & post-season, the "Is Brett returning?" time, the draft, the "how will they do next season?", the mini-camps and then the full training camps. Before living here, I had no idea that football was a year-round topic.

The frozen tundra has another meaning for me as well. We have lived in Wisconsin now for 20 years - the longest I have lived anywhere in my life. When we first moved here from Tennessee, we were so excited to be back living in the North again. We were all tickled pink to be living where there were truly four seasons and oh my, look at the snow! We learned quickly that many older people were snowbirds who lived in Wisconsin during the warm weather but fled south once winter was on its way. "Hah!," I scoffed at them. Such wimps! Can't take a little cold and snow.

Now, I want to be a snowbird. This has been the snowiest winter ever. What is it doing today? Snowing. I am tired of snow - tired of shoveling it, tired of driving in it, tired of walking in it. I've had it with the frigid Canadian Arctic winds that blow through here. I'm sick of wind chills that are minus double digits. I want to be where it's warm, where there's no snow, where a winter day means a sweatshirt or light jacket. We may not be able as yet to live in the South for the whole winter, but I am determined that next year we will take 1-2 weeks at least and head somewhere warm around the end of January.

2 comments:

Sherry said...

My dad lived in Sheboygan (sp?) and talks about snow days where they could not see their cars...I always thought it was an exaggeration...maybe it still was. LOL

Stacy said...

Come to Texas.
:)
Seriously. I'll book you a room at Chez Kocur. :)