Star Date 120510

How is it one can love the season but damn the attributes?  Love winter... not the cold.  Can we have winter with 50+ degrees?  Or is that really still fall?  Is winter a date?  December 21st is coming soon.  I guess today is still considered fall.  Perhaps I am barking up the wrong tree (as Bonnie would say).  If fall offers us this kind of cold what will we call the chill that comes with winter?  More blankets and hot tea, please.