If he sees his shadow, he ducks back under cover and we have 6 more weeks of winter.
If he doesn't see his shadow, he decides to go back to bed and we have 6 more weeks of winter.

Or something like that.

Up here in the hills of Idaho, it's going to be a wet, rainy day with temperatures predicted to be in the 40s. It didn't get down to freezing last night.

Florida has had more "winter" than we have this year. Snow-pack levels up high are OK, but down here, barely at the level to need "high-altitude" cooking directions, we've had two snowfalls the entire season - one a month or so ago, the other last Friday. Both were only ¼ inch or so, neither lasted the day. Most "winter" we've had was 10 days straight of pogonip. Frosted up the trees heavy enough to be concerned about breaking branches. Then it went away.

Now I've lived up in these hills for more than 20 years and I've seen it snow nine feet in a week - three storms one after another dumping 36" each time; chains a daily necessity even on a 4x4. I've never seen essentially no snow.

Which leads me to wonder what the rest of February, March, April, and sometimes into May has in store for us.

Like most things, life tends towards a balance.

I suppose I could expend some effort to mention current events - seems that's what all the kool kids are doing. Trump seems to be keeping most of his election promises, so do the lefties.

We're still in the honeymoon phase though. It's not yet been two weeks and being the cynic that I am, I'm still waiting for the "forces of Democracy" to make their play. I think they truly believed that whore would win and haven't yet properly prepared for the mayhem they so desperately desire.

So, while I think Trump's doing what he was voted into office to do, and he's getting down to consolidating his power which he neglected to do the first time 'round, I do believe the fireworks show hasn't really gotten underway ... yet. Those people are not just going to roll over and let be. And the more successful Trump is in the beginning, the deeper the pushback will be when it comes.

The economy's in the toilet but everyone sees the market going up and up and up ... and figures the world is good. But it's someone putting latex paint on the old oil-based paint; looks pretty at first but it's going to peel off and make a bigger mess than it needed to be.

There are a lot of Obama-ites crawling around the edges that are out of Trump's ability to deal with - such as Lindsay Graham being up to his usual stab in the back activities; this summer could prove to be yet another reminder that Ol' Remus' advice was good: "Don't be there"

But so far - such a breath of fresh air.

Nice to see Milley may get his comeuppance. May his name become synonymous with Benedict Arnold. May his fate be that of Mussolini. May Fauci join him.

Hope for the best - just keep your powder dry in the meantime ...

Albeit long, long ago