One effect of the frigid weather is that it's driven some of the local rodent population indoors. Couple that with the closure of the pharmacy next door who kept a semi-feral cat and we suddenly have mice paying us a visit. In our attempt to be a muroid Auschwitz, we...

Much of the country looks like this, but not here. Every time we get one of these polar events, it seems to come down east of the Rockies. It's cold here, but bone dry. And we're headed into the danger zone with lack of snow. February and March usually save us, but...

It's fucking cold out. Like -5 degrees with lost of wind for a wind chill low enough that it doesn't matter whether you specify it in Fahrenheit or Celsius. A couple feet of residual snow on the ground and another couple feet arriving tonight and tomorrow. Where the...