Someone sent me a cartoon a few weeks ago that depicted two guys wading through waist deep snow and their car buried in snow to the windows. The caption said "Repeat after me--At least we don't have hurricanes, at least we don't have hurricanes..." I would rather live with the threat of a hurricane than endure the six months of winter we have up here in the People's Republic of Maryland. Just got home from a job, the driveway is a 300-foot sheet of downhill ice and I had to put on golf shoes to negotiate my 160 feet of sloping sidewalk. Todays high was 30 degrees f. Tonight the mercury will dip to 10 degrees f. and snow showers are in the forecast for tomorrow.

Damned I'm cold,

Gary