> This is the fourth Friday in a row that it's snowed here. Thankfully, we haven't gotten very much so far today. Yesterday our high was 54 degrees; today it was 12. The shaded places around town haven't been bare for nearly a month.

Yep, I know how you feel. It's snowed a lot here in Colorado (apparently, a lot more here than Minnesota where I'm originally from). Snow messed with my holiday plans for Christmas (I was one of those wonderful people who had their flight cancelled and I couldn't get a flight home until the day after Christmas). And it's really, really cold here. Right now, it's hovering right about 0 F. So it feels a lot more like Minnesota than Colorado at the moment.