No Bad Weather, Only Bad Clothes

[cathyw]

...I'm told this is a saying in Norway?

Admittedly MIchigan winters are more severe than Norwegian winters, except for the thing where we bottom out at about 8.5 hours of theoretical daylight a day and they go down to zeroish. Today it was 12F (about -11C). A very slight breeze, enough to generate a bit of a wind chill. But it was sunny, actually sunny... and the average winter day works out to about 80% cloud cover.

I layered up to "I Cant Put Down My Arms" scale, and went out for a walk to let the actual light of the daystar into my actual eyeholes, and my actual brainmeats seem to have appreciated the gesture, and it felt pretty good to shake out my legs, too. A tad over a mile, probably about a half hour, and just generally good all around.

It was a little bit of a pain in the butt to get dressed up in the layers? and my winter boots are not so great for walking down non-snowy sidewalks? but we get so little sun in the winter I couldn't let the opportunity pass me by.

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[anonprecious]

We say that too. But day star? Is that that very light thing that people of olden days say is in the sky? I wish I would see it again someday.

(don't remind me of this when the temps rise above 25 °C, please, I want to complain then too.)

[cathyw]

our ancient forebears probably worshipped a sun god because the glowing thing appeared in the sky so rarely that it was a reason to drop down to your knees in praise.