Favorite Things to do on a Lazy Winter's Day at Home

It's a January afternoon. The Christmas decorations are put away, the kitchen is cleaned up from lunch, and the laundry for the week is almost done. This is a lull after the flurry of winter holiday activities....what would you do with 4 hours available? My list is below (not in priority order):

 

  1. Take a nap....for about 30 minutes.
  2. Get outdoors. The day was unseasonably warm but even had it been snowing, getting outdoors would have been on the list.
  3. Read a good book by a window. Natural light always seems better...and I enjoy the view from the window too.
  4. Cook. There has been a tremendous amount of good food recently so I'm enjoying getting back to the more normal foods like a wedge of pomegranate while I let soup simmer.
  5. Plan the spring garden. I am not real serious about this yet...for now I'm just looking at catalogs that came in the mail and browsing web sites.