Our winter has been a bit odd. No snow on the ground but lots of cold weather. I prefer the snow before the cold, thus insulating some of my perennials. The forecast for the next couple of days keeps changing. 8-10 inches of snow predicted when I went to bed last night; this morning it is 4-6 inches.

Good quotes, not applicable so much to California, we want rain!
Weather gurus say there may be some next week, I sure hope so.
I wonder where Boswell finds idle hours? Lots of summer things don't need to be done, but the hours get filled with winter-things.

Lilo. a. Boswell was a guy. b. He was a single (as far as I know) medivial philologist and professor at Yale. He read or spoke 17 languages. I don't think he got very much involved with our everyday things which need to be done, LOL.

Growing up in snow country (Norway) there were many idle days, weeks and sometimes months spent indoors. We planned for this time during the spring and summer.