This time of year in the North Country, it is so easy to succomb to the winter blahs. . . all you see is dirty snow, gray skies, cold, gloomy weather. Even the deer and rabbit tracks in my front yard aren't cute anymore.
But I am reminded that one month from today I will be at the "Second Annual Morgan Family Reunion" on our "ancestral land" down South!!!! Last year my cousins and I gathered on the land that has been in our family for over a hundred years for a really fun day. We had so much fun that we decided to do it again this year. These are my cousins that I didn't see, for the most part, for over 30 years. I moved up North and they were scattered in Alabama and Florida. When my dad died over 6 years ago, we saw each other again and picked up right where we left off as kids.
Just like last year, we will get together, have a camp dutch oven meal cooked out "in the middle of no where", do some target shooting - my cousin, Ken, and I are certified gun nuts - walk the land, just enjoy being together again. I can't wait!
Peanut Elsa
12 hours ago
I've only heard the term "North Country" while listening to the Gardening Conversations podcast out of Cornell. So do you guys count as "North Country"?
ReplyDeleteI hate to admit it, but even I am getting tired of winter and am seriously getting the itch to get out to a green lawn, green gardens, thawed out dirt, etc...
LOL! Jeph, this time of year, any place that has nonstop snow is the "North Country". I must be getting old! I used to love the snow. One comment my daughter-in-law in Virginia said, "At least in Rochester, life goes on when there is snow!" She and my son grew up in Rochester and to hear people freak out over a few inches of snow is foreign to them!!!
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