Greetings from Hiber Nation ©™, a collective representing all sane beings who smartly hibernate.  I may not have originated the idea, but I take credit anyway.  I know I’m in good company.  Besides bears, our numbers include reptiles, amphibians, bats, bees, hedgehogs (a personal favorite and true hibernator), raccoons, skunks, and many others.  The intelligent ones, in other words.

I believe humans who enjoy the cold and function in it may be classified under a weird exotic subspecies.  If you do, nothing personal, but excuse me while I go be antisocial and inactive for the duration.  Crazy MoFos.  Humans weren’t made for freezing their asses off.  Blah.  IMHO.

  (from Frog and Toad are Friends, by Arnold Lobel)

Now, if we can all survive the trump hibernator-killers and live to see another spring, that would be great.  We’re all an endangered species now.

Winter is for baking bread and sleeping it off.  (Or working indoors, if you can.)  Here is a wonderful hearty whole grain oat bread E made, to help with the insulation.