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Sometimes you have those days, it's gray, dark and rainy outside, no more snow left and you feel low energy. Guess what? That's typical January! It feels like everything is closed down but the new didn't start yet. Somehow in between. Somewhere on internet I read about the name January. It's named after Janus. In the Roman mythology he was seen als the god of the doors, but also the god of the beginning and the end. He has two faces, one is looking back, one is looking forward to the future. That's exactly how it feel just now. Sounds reasonable, or not? Like it is today. It is very rainy, dark and stormy outside and it will be even worse tonight. It feels like a heavy autumn storm. A perfect day and atmosphere for remembrance. Because today I'm burning a candle to remember my mother. I said goodbye to her already three years ago. It makes me feel a little sad. I will always miss her. But it makes me also looking back to my youth and the life we had together, the travels we made and the good memories you save in your heart forever. This is the perfect time to look back.
In The Netherlands January is called "Tanning month", the month to tan the animals skin to new leather. Typical something you could do in a month in which you could not do that much outside because of natures wintertime. Like it is now. It's too early to start gardening, because snow can still come and it's too early to seed, because the new plants have to wait to long to go out. Hopefully april but maybe May as last year, it was frosty very late. To early to start traveling too, because Corona makes traveling abroad so complicated and by the way Omicron is moving around a lot in Sweden this weeks.
So now in January it's time to get rid of to much not needed stuff in your house, which will get more and more every year. It's time to clean the house, to paint the walls and renovate the old traditional winter windows. Thinking about when to open the garden to open for visitors in the summer months. Preparing recepis and having tryouts for cakes and cooking. Or to make a planning for the coming year, to plan the travel trips to meet my family. To dream about the garden I should like to create and what's needed to make it work. Or to prepare the seeds and needs before planting out later. I started reading about growing and seeds, making a wish list to buy some things new. Can't wait starting the new garden season.... So I've been busy thinking actually 😁.
At the same January is nearly finished now, the days are getting more and more lighter. We are moving towards spring every day. Only some weeks to go now. Till then, I'm longing for snow and frosty times, just like in real winter times. To cheer up the days till spring finally comes, let's hope!
