Well up here in the frozen north, it's definitely not frozen and balmy warm. I'm leaving in a few minutes for the cottage to pick up the remaining leaves that I didn't get the last time I went up. Usually by this time we're about shin-deep in snow and would have already had two or three dumps (snow that is, we polite people don't talk about that other stuff). Temperature is currently around 10C (50F), when it should be around -8C (17F), but no-one's complaining. The snow shovel has made it from the back of the garage to near the front of the garage (gotta be prepared), but has not yet seen any use. So is the bag of de-icing salt, sitting on the front porch - maybe I'll give it a Christmas bow or something so that it doesn't feel left out.