Crazy weather!!

What a whip lash in weather we have gotten the last few weeks! First our thermometer dipped to a bone chilling -20F and we thought we could never warm up. Then after two weeks of freezing cold temps the weather decided to do an abrupt change and rose to over 40F! The clouds let loose a lot of moisture and we were hit with very strong winds. The storm lasted for several days with trees knocked down, electricity out for a few hours, and our snow disappeared! What strange weather for mid-January... Our temps have finally gotten back to a nice normal range between 20-30F...after flooding the pond water receded somewhat and is now frozen and great for skating once again...the green grass is showing, and it looks like spring is just around the corner...but we are not to be fooled. We still have many months of winter ahead of us!