by Frank Schroth

Living through this past winter season is like listening to a record that skips. I am watching the snow falling  .  .  . again. And it is likely to be falling again tonight, tomorrow, and a couple of days this week.

At the moment the National Weather Service is warning of “hazardous weather conditions.” Look on the bright side. This is not as bad as a travel advisory. In other good news the temperature this morning is almost freezing. Enjoy it while you can. Tomorrow everything will go back to normal with a low of 8 degrees. Look at it this way. You can experience what it is like to live in Minnesota without going there.

A couple months ago one might have shrugged and said, “But this is New England.” True; but I don’t recall anything with quite the unrelenting quality of this one. One expects it to be cold and snowy. But this cold and this snowy? Too bad we couldn’t have given our winter to Sochi.

The DPW may be looking at the forecast and mumbling “Just shoot me.” The salt and sand expense is going to be .  .  . well, let’s not think about that right now. (It is somewhere ouch and boing). But if the snow does come I expect the DPW will be on top of it as they have been all season. It has been a challenging season and Joe Lynch and his team have done a very good job. Thank you!

Lastly, there is a bit of a silver lining to this season. The deep snow and bitter cold will only make the first bird songs, green shoots, and lengthier days all the more enjoyable.