Winter is definately here

As I walked out of my door this morning to chisel the $%^&!!! ice off of my car windows so that I could take the kids to school I knew that it was just too darned cold to be outside. Last night there was a heavy fog in the air and it is a nice balmy 7 degrees outside creating a quite lovely layer of hoar frost all over everything. Well... it was quite lovely until I noticed that underneath was a solid layer of ice that thumbed it's nose at my feeble attempts to remove it. Now, as my wife has banned me from doing anything that involves my use of gasoline and styrofoam (the poor mans napalm) and a blow torch was pretty much out of the question at this point, it came down to me using plane old brute force to hack my way through it. After about 10 minutes I had managed to clear enough of a space that I could safely drive without having the locals questioning my sanity; well... question them further anyway. How anyone could let their kids walk to school in this is beyond me. I could never feel good about myself if mine had to trog to school in it. Walking stiff legged back inside the house to go shiver in front of the heater, it dawned on me about Santa's reindeer... they don't wear bells to make that jingling sound... their yarblies are just frozen.