Marcia,

>There must be some very goofy weather patterns going on in the world right now. Today is code here, but New Year's Day was 10°C (50°F) - that is also very unusual in this part of the world. They are predicting 12°C (54°F) for Wednesday. This is spring weather!

You got that right! This coming week, it's supposed to get up to 76F. Right now, I'd guess mid-50s. It's not like I miss Chicago's winters (I think it got up to 14F there to-day, but they got hit with a bunch of snow earlier this week), but, gee whiz, can we have a good hard freeze so all the bugs will die? I open the door and moths are flying in...