Winter might be lovely and enjoyable, but additionally seemingly limitless – Occasions Information On-line

Published February 21. 2026 09:08AM

To sum up this week, I’d name it the massive thaw.

After weeks of frigid temperatures nicely beneath freezing and wind chills beneath zero, we’re lastly feeling the heat of the solar once more. Lehighton received as much as a balmy 51 levels on Tuesday!

I need to admit that I do like snow and colder temperatures, however nicely …

Winter is gorgeous, particularly after the snow has simply fallen and every part is white. I really like a superb snowstorm. I really like when the world looks like it freezes in place. No one is exterior, no automobiles, no folks — it’s simply nonetheless, peaceable.

I really like when the storm is over and neighbors come out to shovel out their driveways, and somebody with a snowblower gives to assist out his neighbors.

Children come exterior, too, prepared to leap on their sleds and pace down a hill or fall into the snow to make snow angels. The day nearly all the time wraps up with a snowball battle, constructing a snowman or making an igloo.

This winter we had a good time sled using with our grandchildren. The finest sound on this planet was listening to my granddaughter’s full stomach giggle on the finish of an exhilarating sled journey down my entrance yard. It brings such immense pleasure.

Of course winter generally is a ache within the butt, or extra so the again — actually.

Too a lot of the white stuff sitting round for too lengthy might be like firm that doesn’t appear to need to go residence. Melt already!

I used to be starting to get just a bit bit uninterested in the piles of snow. They have been so excessive in locations that it was laborious to see round them in my automobile at an intersection, and don’t get me began on slender streets.

Oh, OK, get me began.

The snow piled between parked automobiles that crept out simply sufficient into the lanes to push your automobile nearer to the center of an already too tight avenue has induced me to grit my tooth greater than as soon as. Take a breath. Soon that can all be a distant reminiscence.

Before lengthy, the blades of grass shall be a carpet of inexperienced. The timber shall be budding their leaves, and the flowers will quickly observe.

Each season has its blessings and its trials. Spring has its promise of latest life, and troublesome chilly nights that threaten your new crops. But however, like my husband stated to me this week, we must keep in mind the winter of 2025-26, the 12 months the snow — and bone chilling air — got here and stayed for weeks.