Hang in there you guys up North. I was watching a show on the Discovery Channel the other day, and they are predicting the earth will tilt on it's axis sometime in the future and the North will become the new tropics. (I think they predicted something like 30,000 years from now. )

Your Pa picture looks SO familiar. I have a picture somewhere of our back deck when we lived in Pa, and the snow is even with the 3 foot high railing. On the other hand, it is a very pretty State and has some beautiful scenery.

Don