Honest Thoughts on Winter -Countryside Life-

I've spent a few seasons now getting used to winter -countryside life-, and let me tell you, it's nothing like the filtered photos you see on Instagram. People love to post pictures of a cute cottage tucked under a blanket of snow with a thin curl of smoke rising from the chimney, but they rarely show the part where you're huffing and puffing at 6:00 AM because the driveway is buried and you need to get to the store before the next storm hits. ...

February 10, 2026 · 6 min · Hauser Harshit