There is always shoveling snow, chisseling ice off the walkway, spreading salt, scraping windows, digging out the end of the driveway after the city plows have gone past for the umpteenth time, chopping firewood, cleaning last year's ashes from the fireplace, putting towels on the floor to sop up the water leaking in because of the ice dam on the eaves, thawing water pipes, going to the courthouse for the lawsuit by the little old lady that was out walking her dog at 4 AM and fell on your icy sidewalk that you didn't even know had iced over at 3 AM...
winter time is anything BUT "uninteresting"...