Spring Can't Come Soon Enough

its in the mid-sixties down here in Austin today, just enjoyed a coffee and newspaper outside. i love Chicago but I don’t miss the winters.

Thanks for posting Hornsby’s quote again, Al! I look forward to those words every winter. It’s possibly the most poignant possible encapsulation of the off-season.

are what make the days of summer so special.

for your winter. You can always put on clothes, but you can only take off so many.

I’ve recently moved out of the country and was feeling a bit homesick. Now that I see the weather, not so much!
What am I talking about? I MISS CHICAGO!!!!!!!!!!!!

give me good sound cold weather for a change instead of the warmcoldhotwarmcold patterns of the Tennessee Valley .. which keeps everyone sick as dogs here ..

For the first time I can recall since being exiled down here since 1986, this December has had a consistent pattern of cold weather — just like Chicago — every day for almost a week or so. And if it snows, it may actually STICK for a change here.

No matter the weather, though .. I’m a Chicago boy and dying to be home .. auuuugh ..

makes me want to move to Chicago NOW.

Luckily, I should be moving there within the next month or so.

The Tribune (I think) had a drawing of a bunch of snowmen standing in line to get into a snowy Wrigley Field. With the cold weather here in Iowa as well, I often think of that. I guess the snowmen would all be us.

Thanks for the clue of my Mom’s cryptic statement that there was only one thing she didn’t miss after she left Chicago.

Closing the bars and got a case of the late night munchies? Attaboy Rogers!

For years that was on top of my blog during the winter.

I always consider it a great day when the countdown to opening day goes to double instead of triple digits.

Marathon welcomes Cub fans?

The marathon was 2 months ago. I know because my husband ran it and it’s my goal to run next year (who would have thought I’d go from barely able to walk 2 blocks to working on competing in a marathon!)

NOT the weather. It was 70, sunny, and the birds were chirping as I left work. I was thinking, even after living in SoCal 20+ years…." birds….in December?" I thought it was spring.

I will never take this weather for granted, that’s for sure.

but try driving in it, especially now that the city isn’t plowing on weekends.

do you ever sleep?

I don’t see that option in the formatting guide.

Al tomorrow through Thursday could be huge news days obviously. Winter meetings with possible moves by the Cubs, Kerry could sign somewhere else, Santo and the HOF are you preparing for little sleep?

I’m just coming from Pittsburgh.

Too bad you have to wake up to shovel snow and scrape ice from the car’s windshield, Al. That’s the part of living in cold latitudes that I dislike the most.

To me, it’s baseball year round. Right now, it’s 11:44 P.M. in San Juan, 72 degrees.. Tomorrow we’ll have a high of 85 and a low of 75, a 40% chance of rain and the baseball tournament will resume on Tuesday. (Interleague games against teams from the Dominican Republic ended today.)

Tomorrow night/ tuesday we are to get our first major snow storm. 6- 9 inches when it’s all said and done.

Already took the kids snow boarding twice this season.

It’s the sub-zero air temps that bother me. And that often follows a big snow here. Yeah we’ve had some snow a little early and yeah I’ve had to put my fun car away for the winter, but we can get all the snow possible (beating the ’78 / ’79 record if possible; all you other locals remember that one, eh) but staying above zero would help.

On the flip side, Feb 26th isn’t that far off when I make my 1st trip to AZ for ST.