Winter blues

You would think that living in Nebraska, where Winter consisted of 20 MPH winds and scooping snow out of cattle troughs, and Minnesota, same but about 10 degress colder, I would have been prepared for the Winter here.  I was greatly mistaken when I found out how cold it can be when you are walking a dog for an hour in freezing temperatures.

Say what you will, but we are very pampered when it comes to cold in the States.  Here the morning consists of getting up, eating breakfast, and then walking Whit and Miki to work, and then back again.  That whole process takes about an hour and a half.  Back in the states, I would wake up, eat breakfast, start my car, wait 10 minutes, hop in with my seat warmers on, drive to work, walk from the car to the office building (taking 1 minute tops), and then complain about how cold it is.  You would think that you would be accustomed to the cold, but you just realize that your body forgets how to deal with the cold.  So no matter what the temp is, it will just seem cold.

One good thing though is that it finally snowed here, and the snow stuck for more than a day.  So hopefully later today and or this week I will be able to get some photos up to show how beautiful this country is.  That is to say that it won't be too foggy/cloudy to actually see anything.