It’s -17 degrees here. May I come visit you?
If you could pick the day your freezer breaks, this is it!
Have the Trees started to split in the cold?
I remember!
You go outside and there is snow, and you see your breath, and everything is cold and still in the forest. The sun shines on the snow and you see hundreds of little diamonds of light reflecting off the thick snow! Then all of a sudden in the silence you would hear a snap or a pop like a rifle shot as the ice inside the tree shatters the wood and bark! Its an odd and otherworldly thing.
Then, its cold. So you go back inside. You are glad for a good furnace and a pitched roof. You have a beer and go watch the Bears and Packers and hope the car starts in the morning.
Where are you, Ely? International Falls?
You make the Twin Cities seem warm at -25.