Cold? It is 'smoking season'

It’s like I blinked and then all of a sudden winter happened.

I found out very quickly upon moving here in 2012 that Montana Weather doesn’t play by the same rules as other states that I have lived in.

I look outside today and think, there is no way winter starts on Thursday, December 21, when it is already here.

When the second snow this fall hit last week and I had to uncover my car, I went from sneakers and a t-shirt to Muck Boots and an insulated hoodie.

The roads at times can be treacherous, so rather than gunning it down the highway like I did last week, I found that I needed to d...