Pour yourself a glass of wine. A big one. Or a Bushmills and Ginger, if you prefer. This is going to take a while…..
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Winter has finally arrived. It took its sweet time coming this year and that was just fine with me. Lots of people kept talking about how “lucky” we were this year. It was so mild and so warm. We were just lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. I kept wanting to scream, “SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! JUST BE QUIET! YOU’RE GOING TO JINX IT!” But they didn’t shut up and it’s here now and all the “lucky” people are now sitting in coffee shops grumbling about the cold and ordering more coffee because they’re afraid to attempt the walk back to the car.
But, even with the cold weather and the snow, it still didn’t feel like winter for me. Something was missing and I couldn’t figure out what. I finally figured it out the other day. No Dukoral commercials. They were always one of my sure signs of winter. Late Fall/early Winter, as sure as the geese heading south, the Dukoral commercials would head north. I don’t know where they went but they’re missing-in-action this year.
