winter

Germ-proof Yourself and Stay Healthy All Winter!

You drink your juice and take your vitamins. But you may be overlooking some simple strategies that could stop you from catching a bug this year:

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Today is the last day of January and I have to say I am glad to see it go. I have never liked the month of January. It seems like such a long and dreary month. I can't think of anything good or exciting that happens during the month of January.

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I just dropped my son off at preschool and it is a particularly chilly (the news says freezing) morning. Everyone on the street that I drove by was bundled up to their fullest capacity and clutching something warm to drink in their gloved hands. But I have to say that one person, one high school girl, in particular almost had me run my car off the road.

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Apply a heavy layer of moisturizing broad-spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of 15 or higher to the face,hands,and any other skin that may be exposed. This will act as a barrier to help protect against the harsh elements and is especially important if you will be outside for any length of time.

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1) Apply lip balm or petroleum jelly. Also, try coating your lips with skin moisturiser,vitamin E oil or aloe vera gel.

2) Avoid licking your lips, since the saliva will evaporate and leave them dry.

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Every year, holiday card senders make their annual trek to the post office to see what the USPS is offering that year in Christmas stamps. Postal customers then hope that their local branch has a design they like in stock.

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With the Winter months fast approaching, it's time to start thinking about Winter sports.

Snowboarding is similar to skiing, but is also similar to skateboarding. You basically go down a snow covered slope on a snowboard.

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Today it is very cold here 2 weeks ago everyone was sunbathing and getting tanned Now it is almost cold enough to turn the heating on I can't sleep without a jumper on it's that bad. What's happening? Is this the end of summer just as we thought it was to be the hottest one ever? I know about global warming but this is getting bad.

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Proper winter clothing surely keeps you warm when you go out, but what about your home and work place? There are quite a number of ways to keep your living and working environment warm without creating a hole in your wallet.

The link below is about ways to save money and stay warm in winter. I know that winter is almost over and spring is just around the corner, so it's kind of too late to apply these tips.

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I'ts that time of year again. Spring in Wisconsin. I'ts been in the 70s the past couple of days with record setting highs today. We were predicted to get up to 80 but didn't quite make it. We topped out at 79, at leats here in my neck of the woods. I think that I heard the record was 76 in 1906. Trees are budding and the grass is getting green. The horses are going up in the pasture again looking for grass. It's a beautiful day today.

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Today is a grey day in our valley, not cold just grey. The huge cherry tree outside my window looks spikey and spiteful, its leafless twigs poke angrily into the grey sky. The wind is ruffling the few dead brown leaves which cling defiantly to its branches. Looking at the cherry tree today it seems incredible that in Spring it will be a mass of blossom and that soon its green dress will be so sumptuous that I won't be able to see the other side of the valley from this window.

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It is a beautiful day again in my corner of France. The sun is shining on "our" valley and as I look out of the window the sunlight is bouncing off the beautiful scarlet, oranges and golds of the vine which covers our home. Some days I really wish I was able to paint the beautiful things I see around me.

My cupboards are full of jars of the various jams, chutneys and pickles that I have made from the fruit and vegetables that our garden produced this year. The wood that we shall need when winter really comes is ordered. The heating oil will need to be ordered next week. We are preparing for winter and yet the weather seems more like Spring. Outside it is twenty degrees centigrade, very pleasantly warm.

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The news reports all proclaim that the “leaf season� in Maine is over. “Past peak� blazons from all the TV news reports and weather websites. The leaf peepers can all go home now. Or south to the next big display.

None of them tell you that there isn’t one leaf season in Maine. There are two.

The first one starts rolling down from the high hills in early September, and reaches the Maine coast around Columbus Day. It’s the maple season, the time of the gaudy reds and day-glo yellows and pumpkin oranges. The headliner showgirls of the fall extravaganza. The ones that bring in the cars from the cities, and the Winnebagos from places where “frost� is no more than a hoary old metaphor. Their display is vibrant, brilliant, famous, brittle.

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