Well, Jake, I had an hour long adventure in the nearby "woods" - nature area along our local lake with my 4 yo grand. It was 28f, but damp and breezy - by the last 5 min he was asking to go home in spite of an energy drink at the halfway mark - we were climbing over cut down brush, examining seeds, looking at the ice forming...

Smile for the day - he was examining something on the ground, and said "look I found more seeds!" I looked and it was deer scat, which I explained. Then of course he had to know why...We also found a beaver-felled tree and one well-drilled by large woodpeckers, leading to many discussions of what different animals eat.

When we got home, he was cold (so was I) and starving. Time to pull out the "puffy jackets" and hand warmer packets next week.

Sue

@jakedduck1 No, I haven’t always lived in cold climates, thank heavens!! We’ve lived in Germany (cold) and Asia (hot) and many places in the U.S. Colorado is cold but not as bad as the East Coast where it’s a damp cold. I love it here, but don’t like the cold. When I lived in Asia, we would shiver and pull out sweaters when it got to 75*! I was an army ‘dependent’ for 47 years and would go wherever ‘orders’ sent us, no questions asked. Though my dad put his foot down on taking 3 teenagers to the Republic of Congo! And I told my husband I wasn’t going to Alaska! Always exciting