As September has ended
and we've arrived into October, fall is in full force. While fall is one of my favorite
seasons, the season that follows is a bitter, bitter enemy. Winter is right around
the corner, and I know the snow will show any day. While the first few snow
falls of the year are always exciting, I’m here to talk about the annoyances of
winter. As quoted by Sinclair Lewis “winter is not a season, it’s an
occupation.” This is the best quote I found after browsing the internet for some
time, it describes exactly how I feel about winter.
The biggest annoyance
I have with winter is yes the snow looks beautiful when it first falls but
after a couple of good storms and some icy rains, the plows come out and when
that happens they spray salt, and it gets everywhere. When this happens
everything turns brown and get nasty and looks terrible. I believe that because
it looks so nasty that its part of what makes winter seem so depressing as well
slow and lazy.
Then there’s the whole
automobile effect. It gets terribly cold in the winter where I’m from,
sometimes it doesn't get over zero degrees for weeks, this causes cars to be
slower, won’t start which in turn makes you stand out in the cold to jump your
vehicle, while freezing your tail off, not to mention how much it effects
driving. Think about it, in a major snow storm where a certain place is getting
over an inch of snow driving turns from a usually straight forward task, to one
of the most dangerous tasks. Don’t get me wrong anytime you’re getting into a
vehicle you’re taking a risk. Also though drivers who’re usually confident in
their driving abilities seemingly forget how to drive once snow starts falling.
Say if you had a fifteen minute drive home if snowing fairly hard could legitimately
turn that short drive home to an hour long trip with both hands on the wheels
cussing the snow and other drivers while trying not to spin out and cause an accident.
Finally to tie this
ongoing complaint about winter into the golf portion of the blog. This is one
of the biggest reasons why I dislike winter, living in Minnesota there’s not a chance
of golfing at least from the months of November through March, especially in recent
years. People invest all this money on this expensive sport for only a guaranteed
3 months a year. You lose your swing over the winter and lose all golf tempo
and timing that you may have perfected over the summer. Then there’s the actual
effect winter has on the golf course. Golf courses are part of nature there
grass is the most integral part of golf, and when winter strikes and it strikes
hard, golf courses suffer. Especially if it isn't the most high end golf
course, most courses don’t even put tarps on their greens in the off-season which
just destroys all attempts to consistently have a nice smooth putting surface.
Pretty much which my new found love of golf winter has become my mortal enemy
because its actions slaughter golf courses for months which in turn takes as
many months to recover.
