Tristitiate

[Grogie]

To make sad. ''The end of summer tristitiates many people.''

[LukeJavan8]

Me included, especially with 41 inches of snow in
my yard, but where you live you experience more!

[skinem]

...but melting snow tristitiates many children...

I grew up where it snows a lot. A sure cure for wanting to move back home is visiting in January. Or February...or March...or November or December.

[LukeJavan8]

Right: October thru April: snow.
It is amazing how we as kids (at least in my world)
loved snow, out all day in it. Not any more.
There are a day or so after the first snow when a
few 'venture' out and sleigh, sled, garbage can lid
down a hill, but then nothing. The street where I
live has kids all over, and not a snowman in sight.
No snow forts, not a tunnel. And I had 41 inches at
last count, in my yard. If I were a kid today I'd be in
the height of my glory. "Go out in that stuff", one kid
told me a few weeks back: today's attitudes are so
different. Of course why get cold when you can
probably dig snow tunnels on gameboy or one of those
toys?

[beck123]

I grew up in the NE (New York,) but it was a tragic accident. I was switched at birth with somebody from the South, I'm certain. I disliked snow then, and I dislike it now. I've never been on skis or snowshoes. I was on a toboggan once and broke my leg when the three of us, all standing up on the infernal machine, tumbled off at about 25 MPH on some God-forsaken hillside in Maine many years ago.

If we started all over again populating the Earth, who would elect to live where it snows? How did primitive humans ever decide to live where there is no food or light or warmth for half the year or longer?

P.S. I just bought a piece of property and a house in northern New Hampshire. Just for the summers.

[LukeJavan8]

I have to concur. I used to ask my folks why they
chose to live in God-forsaken Nebraska. No reply.
Just eat your vegetables.
I often wonder how so much of the continental
shift left so much land in the arctic. Siberia,e.g.,
and Svalsbard, for heaven's sake.

I had a sled when I was about 7: never got on one
since. Only open one window in the winter:
a patio dog so dog can go in and out. And people
say, "Isn't the snow beautiful?" and I reply it would
be if it came in different colors.

[beck123]

Actually, there's very little land above the Arctic Circle. It pinches off little pieces of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland. The rest is frozen ocean. The common, Mercator projection of Earth's spherical surface onto flat maps exagerrates the left-to-right dimensions of land at high latitudes, so it looks like an enormous amount of land is in the arctic, but that isn't so. A plurality of the Earth's land mass lies in the North Temperate zone, south of the Arctic Circle and north of the Tropic of Cancer.

There's a good phrase to examine: the tropics. Science and language stroll hand-in-hand down that road!

[LukeJavan8]

Yes, I know that the Temperate Zone is the area where
most land lies. But we are still frozen for a goodly part
of the year. And there is still so much above the equator
and so little below it.
I guess what I am saying is why did not Gondwana
(or whatever it was called) break up a little more evenly
(Pangaea?). I think it is totally unfair and want to complain.
I think this part of the world I live in should be
within 10 degrees of the equator. I am really miffed and
want to take it out on somebody. And I still think
Svalsbard would be a most awful place to find oneself,
outside of the US Great Plains, that is.