Winter just hit us...after some 70 degree F. weather in December (whoda thunk it?!?) February decideded to get cold and then we had last Wednesday's storm. It only amounted to 6 or 8 inches of snow here (alternated with sleet and freezing rain) but the aggro faction was pretty high.

I actually got a snow day -- the company that just bought the publication I work for understands that it's better to stay home when the weather sucks so you don't kill yourself on the road for no reason. First time ever that an employer has understood that I get a lot more accomplished alive than dead and when the driving sucks it's more productive to stay put.

But a lot of my advertisers got A LOT more snow -- like four feet worth. They lost two days -- the second to trying to shovel out. An advertiser up in Berlin, NH said they don't know where to put all the snow -- and threatened to box it up and ship it to Portsmouth. (Similar to my theory of table cleaning.)

But finally the ski areas got snow -- and since people look out into their yards at snow, it's occurred to them to go skiing, snow boarding, ice climbing, snowmobiling, etcet etcet and support the economies (and restaurants, outlet malls) of northern New Hampshire and Maine. About time!

I'm very much looking forward to Spring (I usually miss it -- in the bathroom or something), but I hope the North Country can keep going well into the month or two ahead.

Linn