I know many are getting snow right now and just wanted to tell you that I sympathize with you. We have had a pretty cold winter here in NW Minnesota and even though this storm will probably miss us, many have not this year. We did have a little break in the cold temps this past weekend and as I was swinging my little one in her tire swing(both of us still pretty bundled up), we started making up a song called "Springtime is A'Comin'" to the tune of "Christmas Time's A'Comin". It was pretty funny - and fun; but I am starting to "pine" for spring - and know others are too. This has been a pretty hard winter in a lot of areas and we will be ready for it. So, when it gets you down too much, just close your eyes and think of a favorite spring or summer setting. If you concentrate, you can even smell new-mown hay or the earth as you turn it to plant your seeds and let yourself tune out everything else for awhile. Good luck to all and may God Bless (as He always does!)

-- Cynthia Speer (farmsteader@gvtel.com), March 06, 2001

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A friend of mine said she saw some Robins all puffed up on the snow. Said she tried to give them bread but it got covered by the snow. Poor things are too early this year.

-- Dee (gdgtur@goes.com), March 06, 2001.

I've seen several flocks of geese go over here in Windsor, NY but no robins yet. I hope the poor things stayed south during this storm. I heard on the Weather Channel today that there's another Nor'easter heading for the Northeast on Friday and Saturday. I sure hope it heads out to sea.

I'm sick of snow and cold weather.

-- Stacy Rohan (KincoraFarm@aol.com), March 06, 2001.

I agree snow ,snow go away !!!!!PLEASE

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), March 07, 2001.

Here in NC we don't go for any pansy-a** spring - we just let winter and summer fight it our until one of them keels over from the effort. Most of the first part of the year (Jan-Apr) flips unpredictably from 30 degrees to 70 degrees and back (often overnight) and we have weeks of summer sultries interspersed with weeks of bone-chilling winter uglies with no apparent pattern. New Years itself is famous for being both the coldest (eve) and the warmest (day) day of January, generally something like 12 degrees N.Y.E. to 65 N.Y.D.

Definately not for the faint of heart (of for those who would like to grow lettuce).

-- Soni (thomkilroy@hotmail.com), March 07, 2001.

Sorry you don't know cold until you hit -35 .I hope i don't feel it again for awhile.

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), March 07, 2001.

Half of the snow we got from that storm has melted, it was 45 degrees and sunny today. The next storm is just "supposed" to be "snow flurries". Guess I'll believe it when I see it. Does anybody else think of J.D. Belanger's book "The Place Called Attar" when it starts snowing like it did during the last storm??

-- Marcia (HrMr@webtv.net), March 07, 2001.

I am enjoying everybody's answers so much!! I have experienced some of that switching back and forth that the NC person told about - but just for a little while during season changes - not for very long. But I must tell the last person who posted (from NY) that yes, -35 is cold and you have to have experienced it to know; but I was raised inside the Arctic Circle and since I moved down here to NW Minnesota for the balmy climate, I have been the subject of much ridicule by my friends and family . . . Naw! Not really. Sorry, just couldn't resist. But the windchill was -50 here the other night - and our little girl was at a loss as to why we wouldn't venture the 12 miles to town for a basketball game. And when I lived in Colorado at 8,000 ft. elevation, I went out to start my car for work on many a morning and the actual temperature (Not windchill) woul be -25 to -30. So, yea, it is cold and I don't like feelin' it either. But, like I said "Springtime is a comin, Springtime is a 'comin!" And I wish a very speedy spring to us all! Cynthia

-- Cynthia Speer (farmsteader@gvel.com), March 07, 2001.

I like to read the long winter one of the little house on the prarrie books. I remember 35 below!! Frosted hair complements of mother nature! :) I go to the barn and smell the hay, remembering the warm summer!

-- PJC (zpjc5_@hotmail.com), March 13, 2001.

Yes, The Long Winter is a great one! I ought to go read it again myself. That is a great idea! Cynthia

-- Cynthia Speer (farmsteader@gvtel.com), March 13, 2001.