You kid's hair is damp on the way to school from the morning shower, and once outside you can pick her hair up like an icicle and it sticks straight out!

When my small dog with the short paws goes out in the snow to pee and comes in and gives me the sad look that he could not because his wee wee is froze. Then he looks at you with that look of, do you think I can pee ice cubes and he hopes you get a kidney stone so you can feel what that’s like lol.

Dogs are so sarcastic when their wee wee is froze lol.

when the sun is out and the ice on the ground isn't melting.....

...the air matches the equilibrium of our new Town council behavior (Mr. Seveney). Now that's just cold.

When the waters of The Cove start to get "oily", moving only reluctantly in the wind, waiting for the first lull to start getting slushy, then the slush gathering into little pancakes that even the wind can't move much, and the glittery surface just heaves slowly with the tide, and then... freeze-up. And stillness. (When it's good and solid the coyotes start their parade out to Spectacle Island, where the rodent population has been growing predator-free since the last ice-up. Yummy.)

...it's warmer inside the Portsmouth Abbey Ice Rink than it is outside.