Barack Obama

I sit bolt upright if a fly sneezes in the next county. Even at my age I still have acute hearing and learned to sleep with one ear cocked in my youth. Bad habit in a way.

This cold is normal here and it will hit 10-20 below at least a few times every winter. May get worse too because global warming seems to be causing greater extremes in both directions. Climatologists say we might be able to grow orange trees here in 10-15 years if we can figure out how to winter them over. At 850' above sea level, that won't be easy. We're not Denver, but we are pretty high up. The gardening zone's the same as southern Maine.