25 of 365 (Cold Again)

It was minus six F when we got into the car this morning. The heat was blasting and the windows were barely defrosting. The snow pack made its sub-zero crunching noise. 

 My mind kept flipping back to the lyric in the old Grateful Dead song “Dire Wolf” that goes... 

In the timbers of Fennario the wolves are running round 

The winter was so hard and cold froze ten feet ‘neath the ground 

 Don't murder me 

I beg of you don't murder me 

Please 

 don't murder me 

 (Fennario if you are to believe some commentators is drawn from the ballad, “Pretty Peggy-O” and references a town in Scotland. Fyvie is a real town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and this word might be a stretching of the name to four syllables to fill a lyric line. So much for the musicology interlude. If you want to know more about the song here is the link http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/direwolf.html) 

 Yup it feels like the ground is frozen ten feet deep. We have barely had one day about freezing since the ice storm on December 21st. We had to hide in our homes to kept he pipes from freezing for seven days. We got dumped on with 15 inches of snow. We have had 6 days of sub-zero temperatures and even colder wind chills from 30 m.p.h. winds. 

Time to break out the burgundy and hole up by the fire.