Snow, cold, and cabin fever

Good Morning everyone.  I hope that everything is going well with all of you and your homes.

We had snow yesterday.  It started early Wednesday morning about 5 am.  And it would snow on and off light, then very heavy, then quit for a while then heavy.
Moral of the story, don't listen to the weatherman, especially the one we have.  You get a "snow job".  Have close to 7 inches of snow this morning, and its very cold,  -8 below with a wind chill of -25 below.  I'm not going out today.  

I had plans to go out later this morning to run a few errands, but I think not,  I wanted to get out and go have a cup of coffee out to just get out of the house as I have a major case of cabin fever, and it does not   help when you want to start some garden seeds and get things going a little.  I wanted to go get a grow light so I can start some herb seeds and place it in my kitchen but I am afraid that it will have to wait till the weekend.  Some of my blog I follow, they are starting their gardens and seeds, and I get so bummed out.  I was hoping to get to my cold frames and start laying them out so I can set up my lettuces and radishes and spinach  and get them covered, but they are under the porch and I have ice sealing up the space where I can get to the frames.  I am hoping that we will have a thaw toward the end of the month so I can at least get these set up and covered so I can get the soil warmed up.

Cabin fever is a multi-faceted term and for many people,  has many faces.  Funny thing is, I have plenty to do in the house, for one thing, start cleaning out rooms and get rid of "stuff" that is truly driving me buggy.  But I simply just need outside for a few hours to get some fresh air, and a change of scene, if only for a few hours.  We also have had 0 sun for over a week now, and that really bothers me.  It seems if the sun shines, I am better at staying in, than with no sun and cold and snow just makes me more blue.  My doctor told me to up my vitamin D.  I am some what bad on vitamins, I take them, but I can only afford certain ones on my little salary, so I take a whole food supplement, and a 2000 unit Vitamin D, which I am supposed to anyway since I have had cancer.  She also jumped on me to eat more fruit, but I informed her that fruit is unaffordable for me period, and it is beyond affordable here, and our fruit we get here I wouldn't let a parrot eat.  It is terrible and price wise is beyond my as well as others paychecks.  I have some peaches and apples and apricots that I canned last fall, and I do eat these, with my homemade yogurt, over my oatmeal, and I am in the process of starting some crocked fruit or "drunken fruit" as my grandmother called it.  It takes a little while to ferment, but its sure good over cake or ice cream.  All I need to do is just wander over to the liquor store and get a small bottle of brandy or another liquor and start it.  It will have to wait till payday though in February.  I also have dried fruit that I dried last summer and fall, from some fruit that I got from my prairie paks, so I usually dry these if I cannot eat them right off the bat.  I will see if I can do this crocked fruit and not have a lab experiment in the kitchen!  I will have photos to show progress.

Update:  The sun is shining now.  WOW,  I thought that it disappeared forever.

I also wanted to let you all know that when I changed my blogs name, somehow I created another blog site.  Now I am stupid when it comes to blogs, and  I deleted this "new" blog.  By some chance, if you go to something, and you have problems, email me and let me know.  I'll see if I can fix it.  Or I will probably delete something and it will disappear into the ozone and outer space.

Well, I should go do something, even if it's wrong.   I need to get some laundry done, and some dishes done.  It does not get done looking at it, though it would be nice.

So everyone, please have a great rest of the week, and a great weekend.