AKA daydreaming.
If you get the itch to start as soon as the snow hits, then join the club. Nothing makes me miss summer in the yard more than a few inches of snow. It's not even the cold that bothers me, it's the simple fact that I know I will have to wait almost half a year before I can start the silliness all over again. And come September/October, lament all the things I had planned on doing that I didn't, and promising myself that I will, definitely,for sure, absolutely, do it next year (even though I know bloody well I probably won't.)
So I putter with my indoor plants. Maybe I'll plant a few select tomato seeds like last winter, and I'll have the earliest tomatoes ever, like last year with my Galina cross. I read through online cataloges, and make big plans, even though I know I probably won't follow through. Maybe I'll make a small hotbox outdoors sometime in March or April. I'll start swapping seeds with people, and making lists.
Winter sowing is big for some people, but I haven't tried it and don't know if I will.
Right now the big push is to get some Christmas baking done, and get the house in order. I remember reading somewhere a Chinese prediction that the way you spend the New Year's day is how the rest of your year will go. Last year I screwed that up royally, with the messiest house imagineable! And it turned out true!
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If you get a chance this year, try a little winter sowing, if you've got some seed to spare, the improvised greenhouses are already free and it gives us something to do. I definitely dread winter as well, though this year I haven't yet had a break as I had tomatoes in the greenhouses until last week and now I'm working on the vermicomposting project in a major way. It's already almost Christmas and I'll be having to start up the greenhouse work again in mid January, I could honestly use a rest at the moment and I do like winter for being able to correspond with all of our friends on the Homegrown Goodness message board.
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