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.
