Well today the thermometer FINALLY rose above the freezing point for the first time in over a month. Usually we get some stretches of cold followed by a slight warming trend where it gets above freezing for a few days and then it repeats. The river behind the house has been frozen over for nearly a month now. In the past decade or two it would freeze over then open up several times a year. NOT this year. Oh well.....two weeks from today it will be in the mid 80's for a week. Of course it means a four hour flight but 80 degrees is 80 degrees and I will take it.