Out Our Way: We needed it

Ecclesiastes 3: 1 'To everything there is a season and time to every purpose under heaven.'

Out our way, we sometimes say that winter is the price we pay for the glorious spring, summer and fall seasons we so cherish.

I recall driving in a blizzard on the Hi-Line, barely able to see and with the defroster and heater on full blast . Along the road were cars being pulled out of the barrow ditch by some tow truck, heavy four-wheel drive pickup or even a tractor. At the café, I would hear locals talk about the weather, shake their heads at the below-zero temperatures, ice and snow - and then all a...