winter
Posted by Drew | Filed under General
My parents have always been consistent in reminding me to check my antifreeze when cold weather is approaching. You would think by now I wouldn’t need to be reminded. I did check mine this morning. It’s fine. But I find myself wanting to put a little extra in because this week, my car is experiencing winter for the first time in its 12 year history. I’m in Ohio. I drove here from Chicago, by way of Muncie, Indiana. Tomorrow I’ll go to Cincinnati and then head home. It’s cold up here. I have several friends in this area that I don’t get to see often. I’d been promising to come visit for a while, and finally this week I decided to make the trip. It’s been great. But yesterday when I woke up and there was 3 inches of snow on the ground, I really wished I had made this trip a little sooner. And this morning when the street where Brad and Courtney live was covered with ice, I decided I needed to (carefully) make my way to Autozone to make sure my car was more prepared for this than I was. It’s fine. The only problem I have is that my heat doesn’t work. But I already knew that. Again, this is where I have to recognize that my timing for this road trip was just poor.
But aside from the weather, it’s great to be with these friends again. I am blessed to have good friends that God is using all over the country. All over the world, really. It’s not often that I get to see most of them. So I’m grateful for any opportunity. Soon I won’t be able to do something like this. I’ll be on the other side of the world. And that’s hard. But at least there I don’t have to worry about driving in the snow.
And I discovered this weekend that it gets even colder if you go farther north. I met a girl from Canada who grew up where it’s very common on a winter day in January for the temperature to be 30 below, and it can get as cold as 50 below. But the coldest she had experienced was when visiting family even farther north where it hit 70 below. I looked at weather.com when I got up yesterday and it was 23 degrees in Muncie. that’s 93 degrees warmer than it could be in Canada. Putting that in perspective, that’s the same difference you would feel if you went from 116 degree heat, to Muncie Indiana yesterday morning.
I never knew I could be so thankful for Mississippi winters.
