Life in snow country defines itself and those who choose to endure it. The luscious green mountains of summer turn white and edged in cold. Over the years, some of us have developed certain terms that help define certain conditions. Cold is one of them. Of course cold is relative. People in Florida and Arizona start grabbing a sweater when the temperature heads below 60. In snow country, cold doesn’t become a topic of conversation until somewhere around 40. It remains “cold” until about 10 degrees when the term becomes “really cold”. Really cold is a term you hear often, most of the winter. There are times when really cold slinks away looking for a warm fire because when the temperature drops below 0, you’ll hear the term “fucking cold”. This morning it was 13 below 0 here in Salida. Now THAT’S fucking cold.