Record lows ...

The thermometer barely survived Monday night -- the mercury dropped to -21. Today a balmy 11. The fucking snow blows around like a Sahara sand storm, gritty and granular. I texted a friend last night: "Hey, man, this sucks! I don't want to ice fish! I'm no Inuit!" He responded: "Then you better get In-uit!" Oh, the mistakes we make ... the pride God punishes us for ...