The longest winter ever

Cliff said yesterday that he's going to start selling his motorcycle in September and buying a new one in April, because we've only had one motorcycle ride since October, thanks to the weather.  You can see the resignation in people's faces, and hear it in their tone of voice: there's a feeling that winter is never going to end.  I've given up looking at the ten-day forecast because it doesn't seem to offer any hope these days.

 Oh sure, highs of 38 are a definite improvement; but that's almost March, for pete's sake!  Meanwhile, I read things like this on Fox 4's weather blog:
Remember last week we posted some information from Pleasant Hill concerning how this winter is ranking...here are some quick updates as of 8PM...(KCI reporting 5.1" snow so far...a bit more is coming tonight)

14 days of 1" or more snow that has fallen...this ties a record...the other years were 1888-89 and 1911-12

This is now the 9th most snow in a snow season (Oct-June)

This is the most snow (35.5") since 1961-62

5.1" today is a new daily record

For METEOROLOGICAL WINTER (December-February) this is now the 2nd snowiest (53.3" in 1961-62 is the highest)

Totals for N KC through N MO are in the 6-10" range...with the highest being Gallatin @ 12"

We're tying and breaking records around here.  And it doesn't help that certain people in Georgia and Arizona (and now Oregon?) taunt us with their balmy weather.  

I must give the weather-guessers their due:  They've been very accurate with their forecasting this past year. 

Cliff and I agree that the older we get, the harder wintertime gets for us.  I wouldn't mind having perhaps a two-week break from this weather on a sunny beach somewhere, but it isn't going to happen.  I'll just keep holding out for springtime.  

By the way, I remember that snowy winter of '61-'62 that Fox 4 mentions.  I even have a picture or two.  Snow wasn't the only thing on the agenda that winter:  My mom had cancer and was told she was a goner (she wasn't, as it turned out), and I was getting ready to graduate that spring.