Time

I've never lived in a place without winter.  I do miss the snow, but not as much as I expected to.  What I miss most about snow is sitting in my house and watching it fall outside.  I get a sense of peace from watching snow fall which is hard to put into words.  I miss the silence of snow.  Some of you will know what I mean by that.  And I miss cooking foods that I associate with snowy days - stews, soups, roasts...  I even miss shoveling at 10:30 at night when I got home from work, when everything is quiet except my shovel scraping on the driveway.  Overall, living without snow is not as hard as I thought it would be.

However, living without winter, spring, summer, and fall to mark time is hard.  I never knew how much I used the change in seasons to know what month it is.  I have been lost since I celebrated the 4th of July in the US.  In Honduras right now it is rainy and sometimes cold.  We are finishing our "winter" although I don't know what makes it winter.  We have another rainy season around January.  But the two rainy seasons don't help me mark time.  I have caught myself thinking that it was January or March right now.  I really have no concept of where we are in the year.  When I realize it is almost September, I can't believe that 2013 is almost gone.