Winter evenings and the drop in portal reading across Imereti

Committees compare this month to last month as if the street had not changed. In Kutaisi, December evenings empty earlier. A portal that is used from a kiosk on the way to a bus will show a drop that has nothing to do with the wording of a notice.

When we open an observation window in winter, the title plate says so. We try to include one afternoon that still has light and one that does not. If a steward wants a comparison with June, that is a repeat tracking review in June, not a lecture about decline.

Village counters add another wrinkle. A sakrebulo notice that is read on market day will look idle on a Tuesday in Advent. We ask, in the intake, which day the hall actually fills. If nobody knows, the first plate may only be able to say that: we do not yet know the market day.

None of this excuses a frozen search box or a language toggle that dumps the reader. Those failures appear in any month. The winter column is only a warning against treating a seasonal walk home as a verdict on the portal itself.