End of January

Let's see, this is the month that gave us an ice storm which coated everything with half an inch of ice and pretty much paralyzed the area for several days; hard on the heels of that, we got several inches of snow; then day after day of subzero temperatures, including a couple of nights where it got down to worse than 15° below zero; and then another snowstorm which dumped a good ten inches of snow on us.

This is the most January-like January we've had in several years.

I love living in the Midwest. But native Midwesterner though I be, I've never gotten used to the winter weather in these parts.