You know it's cold when...

• Ice melt no longer works (so save it for the next snow--don't keep piling it on).
• All the birds looks as if they've doubled their body weight (but it's just fluffed feathers).
• The snow squeaks.
• The humidity in our normally humid air takes the form of ice crystals in the sunbeams.
• 15 degrees with no wind feels balmy.
• 15 degrees with wind is the high--and we're glad to get it.

Only 54 days until spring.