[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mac...*hugs*...are you home safe and sound from your visit? Did you have a wonderful time?

Bright, sunny, COLD day here...should be zero in an hour or so.

[SandRat]

[ConorMacNessa]

We're back home, safe and sound. They've already called schools in our county, so Mrs. MacNessa is off tomorrow. The first flake is not expected to fall until about 0200 local time.

I'm watching the net to make sure my trains are running tomorrow.

I feel like one of the last real men surrounded by a herd of whiners and slackers. It was not this way in my youth - I lived in Rochester, NY in the Winter of 1955-56. We had over 140 inches of snow that Winter - snow remained on the ground from early November until early April - with huge piles of plowed snow next to the roads. We walked to school - I was in third grade at Immaculate Conception School - about a mile and a half from home. We had one day off that winter - the furnace in the school broke down.

The sledding there was fantastic - we would go to a park with a long tall hill - a little hillock at the bottom that would give us some airborne time at the bottom.

Hard to believe that that was almost six decades ago!