... and it's not really been a "real" Winter, yet.  No real cold, just overcast & slushy.

Anyway, you KNOW you got the mid-winter blues when you're ordering your freeze-dried food supplies for your canoe trip 5 months ahead of time.  Of course, last year I think I did it 7 months ahead of time.  These meals don't really have a shelf life, do they?

At risk of the wife thinking I was a bit daffy, I cloaked my REAL motive (ie. daydreaming about canoe trips) with a quickly-cobbled-together counterfeit reason for the purchase: "You see, I just want to, um... ah, be thoroughly prepared should this corona-virus thing get completely out of control."  In retrospect, I'm not sure THAT motive alleviated the nutcase label I was trying to avoid.

CanoeCopia can't come soon enough, I guess....

Jimbo   8-)