“I’d like some serious cold to kill off the insects and vermin, not to mention some rain.”
Who are you calling vermin??
P.S. It’s been relatively warm here, too. We have cool-season lawn grasses here and they have managed to grow, a little, most all winter recent years, even with the occasional 0F night thrown in.
Mice.
Epic Fail Lawn Service needs to get after our grass, too, but at his last effort, he said he was out of gas, and then he went away for Thanksgiving weekend. I'll buy him some gas next week.