<< maybe it is better to live in New England than the Pacific Northwest --
never do we have to keep working into the spring to pay our taxes; spring is
way too slow to come! >>
Or, as the great teller of Downeast stories, Marshall Dodge, observed:
"Downeast we've got just the two seasons. Eight months of winterh and four
months of bad sledding! (With two weeks of mud season thrown in for good
measure!)