Elf Sternberg

The question "Do you *get* hard freezes, or even frosts, in your part of the country?" had the assumed every year in it, since waiting for a few years to let the freeze take care of the hornet's nests is not an option ('specially not for Elf!).

And "winter" in the Sound is the amount of snow that will shut Seattle down, but would cause Bostontonions to shake their heads and go one with their days. Yes, I've lived through several "blizzards" in the Puget Sound area. Quite the joke, really...to those used to much more in, say, Wyoming, or North Dakota.

'Course, my experience with snow before moving up to Seattle in 1990 was 5 snowflakes on the car windshield in 1975. I know. I counted them.

But that was in Florida. :)