Thread:Gloria1best/@comment-32738051-20160916062051/@comment-32738051-20160917122456

😊 It does look very pretty, even in snow.

I'm in Georgia myself currently but I grew up in Boston, not far from the ocean, and my mother's family is from northern Maine close to the Canadian border. It's further north than Traverse City but only on a river and not one of the Great Lakes. Georgia is pretty warm and Boston isn't that much colder, both most of the time. But between where you live and my family in Maine, I don't know which is colder, though hopefully you can at least bury the dead in winter. In northern Maine, you can only bury the dead between May and September.

Anyway, I have relatives and friends in the north who have done the trek to Florida for the winter too but a lot of them stay put and it's not only cold and sometimes snowbound, it's also expensive for energy. My dad's on gas now but for the longest time, he was on oil heat in Massachusetts. In Maine, oil heat isn't an option and everyone is on wood pellets (by the pallet, I might add). I hope it's not so bad where you are. And you know, I'm sure that must make it sound like Georgia is a real peach but we have our issues too. In the winter, we have temperature extremes where it's really warm during the day and freezing at night. That doesn't sound so bad except when it rains (or sleets or snows), it all melts but doesn't evaporate and becomes a big sheet of ice overnight. But it's really the summer that can be bad for us, between heat, humidity, bugs, pollen, kudzu and flooding rains. Most are on a combination of electricity and gas and the hottest months can be pretty expensive here. Not sure but I think it may still be less expensive than there. Perhaps we should all live up north during the spring and summer and in the south during the fall and winter? Hmmm. 😉