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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

The snow is melting!  Wonderful.  There is still plenty of snow but
there are a few bare spots in the yard.  Winter might have been hard
on the fruit trees.  It was at least -46 F a number of nights and
several people said it was -50 F. Going below -40 F kills fruit
trees.  Winter weather is ending later and later the last 4 years. 
End of May last year.  I lost about half my fruit trees years last
year.  Old-timers told me there have been killer frosts every month
of the year in the past.