Freeze, Please

The new year is off to a reasonably good start. I've successfully avoided making any resolutions, which should effectively prevent the usual crushing disappointment that results when resolutions fail. I've been occupied lately by a ton of little tasks that I had put off until after the holidays. I guess I kind of got carried away with postponing things, but I'll dig my way to the bottom of this pile of little jobs eventually.
One nice thing about most of these little jobs is that they are in fact little. That means I get a great feeling of accomplishment by getting two or three marked off my list on most days. Another great thing about many of them is that they are very hands-on, which is a nice break from my creative work. Changing a furnace filter is pretty straightforward. Some of them are more physically demanding, but at least they are not mentally stressful. Since my occupation involves a lot of thinking, talking and listening, when I am able to do physical work, it doesn't really seem like work at all.
The nice weather (60's in January!) make it easy to get things done outside, but I'm beginning to get nervous about the prospect of a winter in which it never gets cold. If I wanted to live in South Carolina, I'd move there. It seems like South Carolina (or at least its climate) has moved here. 6 seed catalogs have me dreaming about my garden already, but I have a bad feeling about the growing season if we don't have at least a few weeks that the ground is frozen.
It seems funny to be wishing for cold weather, especially after all the winters past when I groused about the cold and wished I could take a get-away vacation to somewhere warm. Now it's warm where I live and I wish it was cold. But I'm not dreaming of a get-away to Alaska!