I had intended the post as a reminder that no matter how bad it gets spring is coming and it will warm up. Figures warm weather would show up here earlier than higher latitudes but if it comes here it is surely on its way up there. Granted in some areas summer is just a momentary interruption of sub-zero normality.

Not that I would gloat over my relative warmth in the face of such hardships.

I lived farther north for many years and I'm familiar with the bone-chilling cold that never seems to go away and gray overcast that drives people to spree killing and suicide.