Hawkeye’s Squawkbox

Most of us suffer from this at one time or another. For me it begins its onset about the time the grass needs regular mowing, the air show season is in full swing locally, the word vacation gets used more than once a month, or one feels like an animal who just can’t hibernate any longer.

Right now, I am sitting in my office looking out my window. It is filled with blue sky and sunshine and I know it is too hot and humid to even breathe outside. Yet it still doesn’t quell me from wanting to venture outside. Instead I could venture deep inside my cool and comfortable modeling cave. Nope, it feels just like that, a cave. As with animals that hibernate, when the days begin to get longer, winter edges into spring, the temperatures warm, they simply want out. Guess that is part of our programming too.

Some folks need extra amounts of proper light during the winter months to help them stay sane. I just need the bright lights of my modeling room and a television to watch old movies related to the subject I am building. I slip on a comfortable sweatshirt or sweater, prepare a cup of a hot beverage, a few munchies and I am in hibernation…make that…modeling mode.

The earth tilts to shift the amount of light each hemisphere receives, it seems to coincide with the on set of Seasonal Modeling Disorder. Is this coincidence or design? I guess it is by design that man cannot live in darkness forever…though there are those that who do, even when they are standing in the noon sun, but that is a different topic.

If you find yourself modeling less, don’t panic, it is a simple case of Seasonal Modeling Disorder, it is generally short lived…just a few months then you’ll find yourself returning to the comfort of the cave to hibernate once again. Meanwhile it is a good time to follow the instinct to hunt and gather the necessities for the return to happier times, deep inside the modeling cave.

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