What, is the post office finally slithering around up there? I thought they were encased in ice these days. Yesterday I spoke with a friend in that same general latitude but a couple of hundred miles east, in Indiana. He described how his golden retreiver doesn't like to walk on the icy crust on the snow.

Did I mention that I have my first daffodil in the yard today, and my Japanese flowering quince has been blooming for a week?

SRS