One day, in a few months, I will walk outside

[MIButterfly]

and I will notice, for the first time (although it slowly had been happening), that the grass is green and the leaves are coming back on the trees and I will smile. It always comes as such a surprise and revelation to me that I didn't notice that it was happening until it was there. Then this horrible, miserable, bitterly cold winter will be a memory and future conversations will start with "remember how bad the winter of 2026 was?"

Oh, how I look forward to that day!