Will Spring EVER come??

It's snowing again tonight. Technically it's only been winter since December 21. A mere 3 weeks. It feels like a lifetime. We've had over 6 feet of snow in that 3 weeks and there are more than 2 full months until the calendar says "Spring".

People are tired, and cranky and even one guy shot a gun at a someone plowing the other day. Kind of reminds me of Ice Storm '96. Patience was hard to find. So I'm wondering if we have become a soft society. Longing for things to be easy. Sure the roads are reduced to half, drive times have doubled, there are no sidewalks, no parking and getting stuck is more common than not. But, we have heat, we have our cars, we can zip to the grocery store. I'm having a hard time imagining what this type of winter would have been like 100 years ago. When the toilet was outside, a home was 2 rooms if you were lucky and heated by one stove. It didn't matter how deep the snow, or cold the temperature, the animals had to be fed and you hung on to a rope that led to the barn for fear of being lost in the blizzard raging outside. People were hearty back then. People also died a lot younger than they do now. But still, when I think about how much worse it could be I try to limit the grousing and be thankful I was born in 1964 not 1864.