I laughed at the punch line, but the cartoon is incorrect. We lived in upstate NY (Ithaca) for 8 1/2 years. And yes, the winters were six months long and cold and gloomy. The sun came out about six days total during the winter. But we did get heat in the hot muggy summers…I thought they were worse than the winters. (I was happy there and have a lot of great memories, but it wasn’t because of the weather.)
Anyway, we didn’t complain yesterday when we had snow showers and wind here in “sunny New Mexico”. The high up on the land was about freezing, so Andy stayed down here working on a new electronics design. He’ll go up today to see what it’s like. No complaints here!
April 7, 2024
It is good you are happy where ever you are planted. I have always been that way too. Sunshine does make me happy, so would not be happy in a climate that doesn’t have a lot of sun, and so far never lived any where but sunny climates. I do not like hot summer though. humidty ugh
I am like you! I love the sun, and don’t care for humidity.
Yes! Humidity = ugh!
I wasted so much time letting Phoenix’s extreme heat affect my attitude, my moods. Now people ask, how on earth did you go from arid to Alabama? The humidity’s not so bad when I remember how I used to pay good $ to visit a gym with sauna facilities. Now I’m getting it free-for-nothing!
That’s the attitude! It’s not for me though. 🙂
So…why did you move there from New York?
Andy was recruited for a job and it turned out to be a great move.
My husband was at Cornell Law School before we were married. I remember very well how dreary and dark it was there from November through April. One needs lots of supplemental Vitamin D to survive there.
Yes! November through April. I didn’t mind it until the last year when we got some sun in the Spring. Suddenly I really wanted a lot more and was happy to move to New Mexico.
Here in “sunny” Arizona it seems silly to long for the sun but I remember once many years ago when we were living in Phoenix and it had been cloudy and rainy for two or three days in a row. I said, mock irritably, to my wife “Gadfrey, doesn’t the sun ever shine here?”
For the first year or so after we arrived when it turned cloudy we would say, “If we wanted weather like this we would have stayed in Ithaca!” It was nice to be spoiled. We still don’t take the sunshine for granted.
I think just about anywhere you live, it can feel like that if you get too many days in a row of weather. They always say that if you don’t like the weather in Pennsylvania, just wait a few minutes and it’ll change. I hear that same saying used for so many other places.
Especially in the Spring. 🙂