Friday January 5th (aka Brutally Frigid or Frigidly Brutal)

[Pagan]

We have been hearing about the extreme cold in the US. I think you got all of ours. We have hardly been below freezing this winter. What snow managed to stay on the ground has been melted by rain. They are telling us this is the new normal winter - rainy, much less snow, much more runoff. We aren't at flood stages yet, but some areas are pretty close. We may get some snow today, but mostly cold rain. Sigh... You don't have to convince us that the climate is warming - we can show it to you. We were out running errands - crops are already peeking through the snow! Yep, we haven't had enough snow or enough deep freezes to kill some of the crops. Drive past some fields and it is eery -- green plants pushing up through the snow.