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Sunday, January 5. 2020

A new year, and the seasons of fun in Yankeeland

In our part of the US Northeast, we have these seasons of recreation:

Winter:

- doing exciting things in NYC or Boston, cultural stuff or sports-watching
- skiing if you can afford it
- hiking if not too icy, or snow-shoeing
- Paddle tennis - sweat when it's 10 degrees F, at night under lights
- Deer hunting if you can stand the boredom ( I can not, but I like to eat them)

Spring:

- Planning or planting the damn gardens - why do we bother?
- Fly fishing
- Turkey hunting
- Hikes

Summer:

- Boating, and saltwater fishing
- Presidential Range hikes, with bugs
- Weeding the f-ing gardens
- Vacations on salt water or in the mountains, with swims
- mowing the meadows in August
- Outdoor tennis - just a wonderful joy
- Skeet, trap, and clays - to get back into it

Fall:

- bird hunting, duck hunting
- best time for mountain hiking
- Fox hunting - for needed insane adrenaline
- best time for Euroland trips
- chain saw fun, and stocking up on firewood

Year-round

- horse-riding, indoors or out
- Tennis, indoors or out

With a world-wide readership, what do you like? Or do you live in a place without seasons?

Posted by The Barrister in The Song and Dance Man at 13:04 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Biking. In winter we plan a bike trip. In the spring we get the miles in to train for the bike trip. In the summer, we do the bike trip.. a few days, staying in cheap hotels along the way ... in the fall, we remember the bike trip.

#1 Brian on 2020-01-05 15:11 (Reply)

In my neck of the woods, October is devoted to antelope hunting.
Spot and stalk. One moment you are belly crawling inch by inch through prickly pear, the next you are running flat out like an Apache. Then crouching still as a statue, trying not to blink. And all the while trying to stay downwind and never being skylighted or silhouetted. Very few things equal the satisfaction of putting a long slow painstaking stalk on a buck and finally getting him. And boy does the beer taste good back at camp, too.

#2 Major1 on 2020-01-05 15:28 (Reply)

Winter--skiing, fly fishing...tailwaters below the reservoirs but not if it is much below freezing as the guides ice up
Spring---same as winter except fewer crowds skiing. Still tailwater fly fishing and waiting for the runoff
Summer--often still opportunities for skiing in June, peak runoff so fly fishing is a challenge until late July and August. Anything in the mountains is good
Fall--September 1 is the dove opener and the beginning of upland bird season (the dog is ready) grouse and pheasant too and the pheasant season extends thru next January (some conflict with skiing so your choice). Also big game season with elk and deer beginning in September (muzzleloader and archery and then rifle. Moose or sheep if you are lucky in the draw. Some of the best fly fishing in the fall until big snows.
And year round golf if you are so inclined.
It's great to live in Colorado.

#3 rocdoctom on 2020-01-05 15:44 (Reply)

Here in Georgia we have four seasons but there's not much difference between them.
But winter is a hoot.
When there is a mention that there MIGHT be a snow flurry the store shelves look like the ones in Venezuela.

#4 oolioo on 2020-01-06 07:27 (Reply)

We do that in WNC, too. It's crazy. OTOH, where I live there have been times when we've been stuck at home for a week. That's when we stock up on beer and gas for the generator.

#4.1 snopercod on 2020-01-06 09:22 (Reply)

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Sunday, January 5. 2020

A new year, and the seasons of fun in Yankeeland