Why haven't we planned for the season we already know is coming?

You know when it comes. Not roughly — you know the month, sometimes the week. And still, most years, you meet it like a surprise. That is the strange part. The knowing and the preparing are two different acts, and only one of them has been happening. Think of it like a roof. You know the rains come every year. A person who waits until the storm to check the roof is not unlucky when it leaks — they are simply late. Preparing while the sky is clear is not fear. It is practice. You are not doing this alone, and that changes the shape of the work. A plan made only in your own head has to be remembered, alone, at the exact moment you are least able to remember anything. A plan made with your people can live outside your head — in a note, a shared list, a habit the whole group keeps. That is what we build here.