5 Fun Things Done Best in Winter:
1. Wear layers!
The ancient Japanese judged a woman by her layers of kimonos, up to 15 at a time, each showing no more than a delicate breath of sleeve at her wrist. You can be your own 15th century geisha at home! Layering works with any piece of clothing you may have, and it gives your outfit an extra kick of style. Bonus points for layered socks and hats.
2. Clean the fridge!
Did you know that 100% of household deaths from mold involved mold in the house? It's true, but you can protect yourself and that rat that lives in the cupboards somewhere with a simple winter clean. When it's 10 degrees out, that's just another 10 reasons to clean out the fridge. You don't have to worry about stinking up the house because the cold weather will freeze the smell where it starts!
3. Make Honey Water!
Honey Water is a great, inexpensive way to keep warm and hydrated, and it gives you something to do during the beekeeping off-season.
To make 1 glass Honey Water:
Heat water and put in glass. Add honey.
"Is that it?"
"That's it."
"Do I need to stir it?"
"Not really."
4. Teach yourself a musical instrument!
Music is a beautiful way to express yourself and to impress others. Winter is the perfect time to teach yourself for two perfect reasons: 1) You're snowed in, so it's not like you can go get lessons from someone else, and 2) Yours and everyone else's windows are already hermetically sealed shut; even if they can hear you, it won't be worth letting in Old Man Winter just to tell you off.
5. Really pay attention to your plants!
The truth about plants is there's three ways they can die: no water, too hot, or too cold. Or, you could step on them, I suppose. So let's say three, but if you live where it's really, really cold, then it probably doesn't get hot enough to kill plants. Winter may well be the only time you should really spend an extra moment of your day thinking, "Is my plant dying/already dead?" , "Is there something I can/could have done?", "When will they plow the roads so I can get a new plant?"
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#2 is indeed correct. the only household item that has ever attemped to kill me, is MOLD. And also, Japanese Ghosts... but that might have been a mold-induced hallucionation... or perhaps the mold was just PRETENDING to be a ghost... it was really more like a poltergeist (german for polter ghost)... anyway, it threw some knifes at me.
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Wait, so if you killed the mold, you'd have to deal with the (Japanese) ghost of the mold? The Mold Ghost? kabi no obake. kabi obake-chan.
I was about to look up 'mold' in the dictionary but then I thought, "hold on, Elisabeth! You know this word! Don't waste your breath." Because I'm already holding it, so I don't breathe in the mold.
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