Brrrrrrr

Give me a winter with feet of snow anytime over one with cold temperatures and low wind chills. It was a perfectly lovely 12 degrees yesterday when we went out for our walk in the new snow. Perfectly lovely until one rounded the corner and encountered the wind. Luckily there was only about 2 blocks where we really were in the wind during the entire walk. I really needed to go to the bank, or we might just have stayed in the yard. Abigail did play outside for almost an hour after our walk, Isabella for over 30 minutes. The wind didn't get them in the back yard, and part of the yard was in the sun too. The fresh snow was so much fun to fluff around in. What is is about being bundled up in snow pants et al and walking in new snow (the kind with no footprints in it) that makes kids fall down every other step on purpose? I remember the fun of collapsing into the puffy snow world all too well. If it had been warmer or if Vincent were old, I would have been right there with them...

Today, though, the wind was just too much. We didn't get outside for anything. Well, except for Luis. He's laid off almost the entire month of December. However, now that it's January and an absolutely frigid week, he's working again. Outdoors. On the top of a hill. Luckily the site they are working at is partially complete, so there is some protection from the wind, but he's got to be truly outside part of the time too. Even bundled up completely in his Carharts with three layers underneath, even with thermoses of boiling hot soup and eating out rather than brown bagging it just so he can have a hot lunch, he comes home chilled to the bone.

For all of those construction and utility workers out there working in this weather, Thank You and Please Stay Warm.