Yes, January came in November this year. The lowest (so far) was 7 degrees last week. (I'm about 20 miles west of Wilmington.)

By the way, I have another Katie story: One day, when she was 8 or 9, her father and I were driving her somewhere or another. We were talking, and somehow the topic of West Virginia came up. From the back seat (she wasn't old enough to sit up front yet), Katie asked a showstopper question: "West Virginia? Isn't that where they have the Kentucky Derby?" Neither of us knew quite how to answer.

When we got home, I promptly went to the tourism websites for Kentucky and West Virginia, and signed Katie up. She got stuff from them for the next six months! (And yes, she now knows where the Derby is run.)