After 40 years in Minnesota this is no big deal for us, after all the coldest morning was Tuesday February 7 at 10 degess F. That would be a warm day in a Minnesota winter, but around here things sure do slow down. We haven't needed our car for over a week so why bother shoveling it out, besides we don't even own a snow shovel ( a requirement for Robert to live anywhere).

The talk all over town was of these new "things" hanging off of roofs and balconies. We were asked at market this morning if we had seen them before!

By the end of the weekend the snow should be gone from the palm tree across the street from our house and all will be back to normal again.