Hi Steve.

May I also ask you where your "here" is?

 SR> We're doing a bit better than thats here but this Winter cannot seem to
 SR> make up it's mind how things are going to go. For the next few days the
 SR> forecaset is about -10C however we have also gotten a lot of rain (which
 SR> has now frozen.)

Raining is all that's doing here in Sweden. We haven't seen the sun now for
about two weeks if it still exists one.

 SR> The big snow right before Christmas has melted and been replaced by just
 SR> enough to cover the ground. My children are very unhappy be cause we have
 SR> a big hill in the front yard but they cannot build a snow fort or sled.

We doesn't even have anything and I feel the same way as you do about the
children. When they are grown up they will not know what snow is if they haven't
seen it on TV or on old videos.
I'm just longing for a feet or two of snow and -5C and sunshine.

//Bj”rn

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