All winter I wait until the blooms begin to bud and the warm weather arrives.  I love sitting outside enjoying the stillness of nature – flowers, birds, and my cats lazily sleeping on our deck in the sunshine.  I sometimes reminisce about the lazy summer days of my youth, when I bicycled around town, ran through our sprinkler with the neighborhood kids to cool off in hot weather or spent endless days with my friends at our town pool.  Those memories keep me warm on a cold winter’s night;...