Do-It-Yourself Snowmen kits available REAL CHEAP (you pay shipping...).

No January thaw this year -- unless that's what that one day last week with above freezing temperatures (by a degree or two) and the sun out was.

A February thaw would be nice...SPRING would be nice...

This winter's weather pattern seems to be bad weather on my day off. The upside of that is I don't have to fight lousy roads to or from work. Downside is that it makes it considerably more complicated to schedule lunch or get-togethers with friends.

Two weeks ago on my mid-week day off it wasn't snowing, but it was well below zero (F.) with a brutal wind. I think my eyelids froze open twixt car and restaurant. After lunch I drove down to the beach to make sure the ocean was still there. It was, but the horizon line looked scribbled instead of flat. And the Isles of Shoals were floating mirage-like well above the ocean as was Massachusetts' North Shore curving south of Hampton/Seabrook.

Linn