Nice "tip" Don ( ok pun intended ). Thanks for sharing it.

You want cold... Here in the Catkills ( NY ) we have plenty of it. We had snow falling already on the second of October. I've seen it other years as early as late September.

I don't really like hot weather at all, and I'd miss the scenery we have here..so I wouldn't be happy in the South at all. I like spring and fall best. We rarely have any days where it reaches 90 here. 9 months out of the year here it's tolerable. From about mid Dec to mid March, you don't see the temperature go above the freezing mark a whole lot. Doesn't bother me much though. One of my favorite scenes is fresh snow sitting on the pine tree branches.

AJ