after all the years of shoveling for myself and all the neighbors - I've did my time - I served my sentence

yes it can be beautiful - if it is snowing - straight down and not blowing at 80 MPH sideways for days on end

Feeling any better Mama?

thank you for asking! I've just got a cold now - I think it's time to spend more time outside and build up my resistance or something - but it's been so cold and windy - this morning I wash shoveling icy snow as it was raining and starting to turn to ice balls - someday I'll be rich and live on a tropical island and I won't have to shovel anymore (and to think I always wanted to have a ranch in Montana with the mountains in my back yard!)

No wonder you cannot get rid of it. You keep having to get out into the bad weather again and again. I hope you feel better soon.
I started vitamin D and it really seems to have helped my immunity.

Our 60 degree days are gone. It has been 35 and a cold blowing rain for two days now. The kind of weather that makes your joints hurt. My elbows are so stiff when I get up in the morning when it is doing this I have a hard time straightening them out.

All week we've had ice-fog and freezing rain, w/ sheets of ice 1/8" thick covering the entire car- plus sidewalk, parking lot, etc. I about fell on my azz more than once trying to keep my balance while scraping/chipping ice off my windshield. Another BIG one with COLD and SNOW is supposed to be here in time for the weekend- oh joy!