Still Winter

Lulled by the fact that last weekend managed to make it above freezing I cycled in again this week, stupidly with fewer layers on only to get somewhat frozen as it had got cold again. The average temperature for the start of March in Minnesota is about -1C. But here is a picture taken yesterday (7th March) at 9:00am. The -1 is in Fahrenheit which is -18C. The clocks go forward tonight, 2 weeks earlier than in the UK but it doesn't seem to go with the weather. Everyone tells me that by the end of the month the average temperature will be 50F, can't even imagine how warm that will feel.

Still, every cloud has a silver lining, in this case cheap snowboard gear and season ticket passes for the ski slopes. I took advantage and got myself some pretty cool gear. Now when I crash on the beginner slopes I can do so in style (if you exclude the hair that is).Ended up in a quaint little town in New Jersey on Thursday going to see a company we're working with. They have a 600 year old tree that is pretty impressive.

Andy's chocolates continue to down brilliantly. She's getting serious about starting a business and will probably kick things off after the summer to give her time to experiment a bit more and get properly set up with all the legal side (she has a work permit now so the biggest obstacle has been overcome).

Andy and Dan both have ice-skating lessons this morning then we're off to explore somewhere new. Last weekend we enjoyed the warmer Sunday and went walking across the local lake and having snowball fights, just your typical March in Minnesota.