Yes it is Cold! Thanks for asking.

You don’t need to ask. After all it is January in Maine aren’t we supposed to have snow and cold? How cold, you ask; around eight below zero Fahrenheit this morning. The most impressive thing about this cold wave was how it arrived. Yesterday morning when I got up at 5AM the temperature was thirty one, five hours later at 10 I went out and discovered that the temperature had fallen to 10 on a stiff northerly wind. Not a fun day to be outside.

I am settling in to a different winter routine, one not so busy as the last several winters. I am getting caught up on errands and things that have been on my list for a long time. Oh and by the way filling the woodstove regularly.

Yesterday I went to the Agricultural Trade Show in Augusta, one of those things that has been on the list for a long time and just never happened. I enjoyed my visit and saw a bunch of folks that I know. One interesting observation is that the Ag community is even older than the hunter and angler community. I wonder what the transition in ownership in the next ten years or so might mean to Maine’s farms and rural communities like mine.