Sometimes I wonder about my own sanity.  I sit here in Alexandria, Minnesota with the temperature at 39° with a mix of rain and snow while back in Rio Verde Arizona the temperature is 84° and the sun is out.  I willingly left Arizona a little over a week ago – What Was I Thinking?  The bad news is that the outlook for the upcoming week, except for Sunday, is pretty much the same with the temperature inching up to the low 50’s.  But we are here and will make it through.  That said, golf is at the best suspect and at the worst non-existent.  There is some good news, the ice on our end of the lake is out but with these temps no boating is on the horizon. Every year I promise that next year I will make the trip to Minnesota much later but every year something comes up that necessitates an earlier departure.   A University of Minnesota climate scientist gave a presentation at Alex Tech yesterday.  He noted that on April 21 (yes, yesterday) in 1980, the temperature was 100; on April 21 in 1945, the temperature was 0 – only in Minnesota can you have a 100 degree difference in temperatures on the same date.  The miserable weather aside, everything is fine with our home here and we have the time to catch up with friends.