I would love to like the fall.....but

I want so badly tor reveille in the beautiful colors of fall; but I can’t; been around too long and have seen the end result; winter.

Wanted to wait until November 1st to turn on my heat; but woke up one morning to the temperature of 56 degrees; so I had no choice but to turn it on.

I won’t put away my favorite khaki shorts; I will hope for a sunny day so I can put them on with a tee shirt and pretend it is summer; I will however not look at my untanned winter dried legs.

I will reluctantly go to the basement and bring out the Suzio/Concrete scrapper I got for Christmas many years ago.

I will try to find bright summer color sweaters to wear in defiance of the black, brown and grey of winter; I will wear Khaki pants and fun colored socks to ward off the cold.

I will try to forget that I was born in the coldest month of the year; January. I will hope that my special day will be at least sunny; I hope it won’t snow and be too “bad out” to see my friends and family on this day; it is a very big one this year.

I will try to keep myself on track for the weight loss I am so desperately trying to maintain; I cannot succumb to the comfort food, such as beef stew and chili on a cold winters day; I will try to go to the gym instead of walking outside (not that I did that too much in the summer)

I will try to be positive in my outlook on winter; because frankly who knows how many I will have left; I am getting old !!

I don’t like winter.