Experiencing brutal cold for a period of time every year keeps you humble
That’s why Californians are like that
Time to plastic over the windows for the season.
????? Why??????????
You put the plastic on the windows to stop the heat from leaking out of your house from between the panes, through the glass itself, and where the window is attatched to the rest of the house. This does make a drastic difference in the temeprature of your house and the amount of gas/electricity needed to keep it warm.
Some other Winter Things:
If you think there’s going to be an exceptionally deep freeze, you open up all the cabinets in the house to warm the air in there and keep the pipes from freezing/bursting.
If you’re going to be away for a while in winter, it’s adviseable to turn your water off to avoid the same.
Putting an electric Blanket between your topcover and bedsheet and pre-heating your bed for half an hour so you don’t get a chill going to bed.
Applying literal vasaline to your lips if you’re going to be in the cold for an extended time (more than 10-20 min, depending on latitude), becuase chapstick won’t cut it and your lips will split and bleed and HURT
Doing the same to your nose
Your tears go from liquid to gooey trying to produce a similar protection for your eyes. You can also feel the water freeze on your eyes if you step directly out into the cold.
Also since I know you’re a socal person- in the far north you can get as little as eight hours of daylight. 7AM to 3 PM. You need to by the most obnoxiously bright light possible and sit beside it or you will actually literally develop psychosis in some cases. It’s 4:30 and you need to take the dog out? it’s pitch black out.
Everything is covered in ice, which will alternately cause you to slip and break something, burn, or actually tear off your skin.
Christmas and the pressure to be jolly is much stronger in places with Winter. Get your Holly Jolly On In this Frozen Black Hellscape!!! It’s why people go real bananas on the holiday lights. they’re trying to stave off the void.
I know the person I’m reblogging this from lives like 40 minutes from me, not in the North.
But people in the North, are you OK?
Don’t forget you have to be careful while shoveling snow because it’s possible to get a heart attack doing it
I once got into an argument with a vegan who claimed that humans are naturally herbivores and eating meat is unnatural. When I told them that humans need vitamin B12 to survive and could only get vitamin B12 from meat and animal products when B12 supplements didn't exist yet, they claimed that vitamin B12 is found in soil and you can get it by eating unwashed vegetables that have dirt on them. Can you really get vitamin B12 in your diet by eating dirt? It sounds ridiculous.
Another case of vegans take scientific research and twist it into propaganda while hopelessly (or purposely) misrepresenting it.
B12, or cobalamin is a vitamin
synthesised
exclusively by microorganisms such as certain bacteria and archaeon; therefore animals and plants cannot naturally produce it. However the synthesised cobalamin accumulates and is transferred into animal tissues which is why it is found in meat, dairy products and eggs.
Ruminant animals such as cattle, sheep, ect. have a symbiotic relationship with the bacteria that produce cobalamin
present in the rumen (2nd stomach).
Certain plant and mushroom species also can contain cobalamin through interactions with microbes but they don’t contain a considerable amount and certainly not enough for a human’s diet. This microbial interaction is through the soil correct, more specifically because of the bacteria in the soil (aka. microorganisms that naturally produce
cobalamin) but it again, is very little.
So even if vegans were on their hands and knees shoving dirt into their mouths or eating solely dirt covered crops, there isn’t enough cobalamin to meet what humans require. Not to mention all vegetables and fruit are thoroughly washed and cleaned for safety reasons, and the dirt may contain traces of pesticides, harmful bacteria and likely animal manure. So by all means vegans can keep eating animal shit but it’s not going to do them any good.
Here’s a recent 2018 study on cobalamin and the levels that are found in soil, plants and animals:
