I’m afraid all my ancestors came from the great frozen north as well. Boat-building Vikings that, ....., pillaged and slaughtered their way down into Scotland, Ireland & Germany. (To escape the cold! Also starving because there wasn’t enough farmland or enough good weather to grow crops.)
They eventually became peaceful boat makers and piano makers, before coming to the United States to avoid the war. It didn’t work at all. Most of them wound up in the military at one point to another.
(Grab on to something if you see a root or twig, because we’re going further down the rabbit hole.)
It is clear to me, that if snow was the natural environment of a human being, that we would have the same fur as a bear. Or a Caribou. Even my dog is not warm enough!
I was used to snow by the time I lived in Utah. I had shoveled so much Rocky Mountain snow, that the Minnesota snow and the Washington snow and the New York snow & even the lighter more cheerful Ohio snow was all but forgotten.
But I’ve lived in the desert valley now for almost 50 years. Real snow would be a big inconvenience, even though I could afford to hire someone to shovel it.
My wife has lived here all her life. She spent one winter up in Yosemite Valley freezing her butt off in a tent cabin though. She doesn’t remember it well enough because every now and then she tells me “Gee we should go up and play in the snow.” Pointing to the mountains above our house.
Now if I thought she could stand to ride a snowmobile, I might take her, because Snowmobiles are my one real attraction to the snow, though I haven’t been on one since 1975.
Anyone reading this far is surely gasping for air by now…..
They eventually became peaceful boat makers and piano makers, before coming to the United States to avoid the war. It didn’t work at all. Most of them wound up in the military at one point to another.
(Grab on to something if you see a root or twig, because we’re going further down the rabbit hole.)
It is clear to me, that if snow was the natural environment of a human being, that we would have the same fur as a bear. Or a Caribou. Even my dog is not warm enough!
I was used to snow by the time I lived in Utah. I had shoveled so much Rocky Mountain snow, that the Minnesota snow and the Washington snow and the New York snow & even the lighter more cheerful Ohio snow was all but forgotten.
But I’ve lived in the desert valley now for almost 50 years. Real snow would be a big inconvenience, even though I could afford to hire someone to shovel it.
My wife has lived here all her life. She spent one winter up in Yosemite Valley freezing her butt off in a tent cabin though. She doesn’t remember it well enough because every now and then she tells me “Gee we should go up and play in the snow.” Pointing to the mountains above our house.
Now if I thought she could stand to ride a snowmobile, I might take her, because Snowmobiles are my one real attraction to the snow, though I haven’t been on one since 1975.
Anyone reading this far is surely gasping for air by now…..
