Covid restrictions are easier with this gorgeous winter

Winter is still beautiful and the snow going strong. It is frosty, sometimes very, going up or rather down to -15c at night, its snowing from time to time and our lake is now so frozen that people walk and skate on it.

We have snow on the ground non stop for about 3-4 weeks now and I and dogs still love it. Lucy who is about 14 loves to roll in it and both her and Linus stick their noses in the deep snow searching for cat’s or wild animal’s poo I think. Thankfully frost makes it inaccessible for them. We had a sunny day yesterday and Lucy was so happy about it that despite of living in Thailand until 6 years ago decided that she’ll lie outside suntanning herself.

When I walk out of the house every morning I say loudly to myself that it is worth to live here for this. Even my noisy, Polish neighbors are worth to put up with in warm months for what I can have now. Town living of which I sometimes think, is not the same. I don’t think I could live in a big town again after many years of country living, but if I could adjust to it I would miss what we have here now. Even the loneliness of lockdown is easier to put up with in this lovely weather. “My” birds bring me lots of joy too. I feed them religiously three times a day and opened doors of outbuildings for them to hide during the night, which they do.

While having lots of me time I came up with the list of what I learnt from the lockdown and it is quite profound. I learnt that I am definitely not a loner and miss having people around and seeing their real, non digital faces. I also learnt that in order to be creative I need to quit social media and today am closing my Instagram account. I closed Twitter and Reddit last week but must admit that didn’t use them as much as Instagram. As soon as possible I want to volunteer on an animal sanctuary farm somewhere. I am getting better with my German despite of not speaking with Germans much. I like Mord mit Aussicht (ha, ha, that’s not so profound). I definitely like gardening and miss it, but because of the non diggable, frozen soil I came up with the new idea for my garden, more natural and insect friendly. Easier to keep it too and no water needed.