I thought I'd posted this, but it's been sitting here unpublished since Dec 22.
It's awful cold out today. And windy. Which, as my readers who live on the equator might not know, makes for a nasty wind chill. We hear reports on the radio like this morning's "It's four degrees out, with a wind chill of minus fifteen" and it makes us crawl back into bed and invite the dog in. I dawdled around the house this morning because I didn't really want to leave the house and go to work, and I was sort of planning anyway to drive so there was no reason to leave at 8:35 to catch the bus. Plus I thought the day might warm up a bit by 9:00.
The locks on my car doors were frozen. I tried using the lock-heater a friend gave me a couple Christmases ago, but couldn't figure out how to get results. So I popped the trunk, tripped the latch for the back seat, and crawled in that way. I parked on the windswept hill near campus and left the car unlocked (unless you're a car thief or my auto insurance agent, in which case I locked and re-iced my doors). The hill was particularly swept by wind this morning.
I pulled my hat down over my eyebrows and pulled my scarf up over my cheeks, leaving just my eyes to the elements. The wind blasted them, they watered and froze. I kept blinking so they wouldn't freeze shut, but still ice clumped around the edges of my vision.