It’s finally snowing. The cold weather that has been freaking out everybody who lives south of Illinois has been freezing the rivers and lakes solid here but hasn’t dumped any snow on us until today. Newly-fallen snow can usually tempt me to go kicking through it, but I won’t be going for a walk today because the temperature can be spelled with just three letters, T E N, which is better than O N E but not much better. Once you get down to spelling the temperature with three letters it pretty much all feels the same until you start putting a minus in front of it.