Let's Hibernate

Our residence in Somers

As of today, 50 days of winter are already gone and only 40 days remain until the Vernal Equinox, that glorious day on Earth when the Sun rises to its zenith of zeniths, and shines directly over the Equator. So isn’t it nice to know we are now on the Spring side of winter.

Some shiverers among you may feel chilled to your marrow as you stare at the awesome size of these icicles covering this window of our house. However, when you run your bare fingers over their surfaces you can feel tiny droplets of water running down each of them. These stalactites are actually thawing!

Look at this from another perspective: at approximately noon today, someone in Comandatuba, in the Bahia of Brazil (Latitude 15.25 deg S) was hurriedly smearing himself with sun screen lotion while he sat on the ocean beach. The Sun was about to cross exactly 90 degrees above him. But we, here in Heritage (Latitude 41.3 deg N) gazing at that same Sun with a sextant, see it just above the horizon at only 34.3 degrees. Lucky we! No danger of sunburn. No need for sun screen, today!

<> And if our sweltering Brazilian friend needs to really chill his Tequila, I’ll be happy to FedEx him one of my icicles.