Once again, February has arrived. I often say that February in Geneva, N.Y., may be the shortest month of the year, but man, somehow it feels like the longest. The days are cold (usually) and the nights colder.
The good news is we are getting about one extra minute of additional daylight each day. The bad news is we’re still getting a lot of 5:30 or 6 o’clock darkness. Did I mention the cold? Oh, it can also snow ... and snow.
Still, this is supposed to be a positive column, so I will get rolling with the good things about living in Geneva and the Finger Lakes during the second month of the year.
I’m going to put on my Boomer hat here and say that Februarys now aren’t nearly as bad as when I was kid. Back in the day, my friends and I had to walk through feet and feet of snow to get to school. Plus, it was uphill both ways! For some reason the last few years, the Februarys in........