Jesus and my big move

 So Jesus has moved me to a place that has very it's kind of hard to say this but harsh and erratic Winters. It's very strange because you just wouldn't think this place would be like that. One of the things it does here is it snows and you think it's going to melt. But the temperature will go up to like 35 but the snow won't melt and it will freeze at night it goes down to like 10° at night and so the snow is melting all over the place during the day but then freezing and drifting at night. So you get up in the morning in the streets are not safe you know because it's slick and dangerous to drive. But it affects everything you do. Walking to the mailbox can turn into you know and an act of heroism. Plus they have a heck of a time predicting the weather here. So they'll predict it's going to be 45°, and then you watch and it won't get up to 35. So essentially not nothing melts or very little and it's cold and miserable. And sometimes the wind blows which the wind blows everywhere I mean that's what that's why we call it wind that's why it's in the Bible. And not to get too far off the subject but you notice God talks about doves and Ravens which are crows in the Bible will everywhere I have lived you see doves and crows. I don't know if they're all over Europe and and Africa and China and Japan and India and everywhere else okay but they are definitely everywhere I've lived. I don't know if they're in Puerto Rico and Hawaii.

So last year I kept thinking well there will be nice days when it's I'll look out and it will be you know decent to go outside, and they're basically are almost no days like that. So this winter I'm taking on a different approach I'm getting some different shoes I'm getting some heavier clothes I'm getting you know dressed up for it I'm going to cover my face up more when I go outside because your nose just freezes in this kind of weather and so yeah I don't wear a full face mask, but I mean that's a possibility. So there's you know the some of the stuff that they do in the Middle East is actually kind of educational for how to you know wrap stuff around your face you know and.

The one thing I can't bring myself to do is put on full steel studded snow tires. The problem is you're driving mostly on pavement but then the snow and ice is prevalent enough that it's super dangerous too. So there are some people that just put steel studded snow tires on the power tires. But they make noise and it makes your ride real rough, so we're going to try to survive without that. There are lots of accidents here in the winter it's kind of frustrating.

And from what I'm saying the weather follows General patterns you know sort of like day and night right. During the day it's going to get lighter and at night it's going to get dark. Well here it's obviously the same thing in the summer it's going to get warmer and in the winter it's going to get cooler. But this fall was almost completely different from last fall. You wouldn't even recognize it as the same place. The weather was much harsher and erratic last year, some of that has to do with the jet stream and what it's doing well nobody knows how to predict the jet stream I guess. This year it does seem colder though so it's kind of a weird thing right last year the winner was going up and down from being a nice warm fall day to being a freezing winner afternoon this year it just seems sort of colder in general which you can sort of prepare for better. So the summers are hot but not miserable. And the winners are cold and miserable. So that tells you you know that you're not in Mexico or something. so it isn't really clear there's there's places that I don't understand why anybody lives there but it's I guess it's because it's land and and humans need land to live on.