Rx for Cabin Fever

Before

After

Just imagine you live in Minnesota.  It's a Saturday. The world outside looks like a snow globe. Snow falls fast and furious in the sky. You do not need to go out. Yet you want to go out. That is right. You have cabin fever.  What are your choices?  A local author is speaking at the library.  The pool at the health club is calling your name. You don't need groceries.  You don't really need to go out at all. The house is clean but it could be cleaner.  You could visit friends or family. You could read a book or watch a movie. Instead you risk life and limb.  After a swim at the health club followed by a dry and wet sauna you go to the local big box department store to save big money. There you find 3 lacy curtain panels and a curtain rod.  You get home at dusk.  You decide to put up the new curtain. As you work you see the woodpeckers in the yard and stop to take a movie of them eating suet.  You remove screws drilled into the wood prior to 1991.  You stand on a chair questioning your sanity.  You install a new curtain rod and stand back and admire your work.  As you admire your work you see "your" herd of deer. None of them have antlers.  You could go out looking for shed antlers.  You watch the deer frolic in the blizzard.  Two of the larger deer raise up on their hind legs and fight like a couple of kangaroos.  All the deer are putting their snouts into the snow for fresh forage. One of them, you call him Tigger, paws at the ground. She or he doesn't like a cold nose. Every once in a while this Tigger deer jumps up in the air with all four feet like it just got electrocuted. Why?  Why Tigger, why? Is that particular patch of buck thorn especially spicy?  You are glad you are not a deer tonight  You think winter is better when you pre-pay for a seasonal contract on snow plowing.