Top Ten Reasons to Love Winter

10. The bottled water you left in the car last night now makes a great ice pack.
9. Snow makes it easier for the Pillsbury Doughboy to play hide-and-seek.
8. No leaves to rake.
7. Who needs water to mop the kitchen floor? Recycle. Use the melting clots of snow.
6. Free ice skating rink—the driveway.
5. With gas prices this high, who wants to feed the lawn mower anyway?
4. Winter affords the opportunity for scientists and junior high boys to practice cryogenics without the unnecessary expenditure of valuable research funds. Stick a cat outside at twenty below zero—instant MeowSicle. (Cat lovers, I apologize).
3. Driving behind a snow plow—an adventure of beauty and wonder as you motor along through the tunnel of cascading ice crystals, marveling at the beauty and wondering if you’re still somewhere on the road.
2. Winter, an easy, inexpensive way to test which of your pairs of shoes don’t have good traction.
1. It’s one of God’s most magnificent creations. He obviously spent a lot of time on the details, so I’d better learn to appreciate it. That, and curling up in front of the fireplace which is a lot more appealing now than when the air conditioner is running. Job 38:22—“Have you seen the treasuries of the snow?”