Probably 30″ of snow in the backyard— it’s been death by a thousands little snowfalls this year. Two inches here, six inches there, not too bad shoveling-wise, but it’s been just one after the other, with something like 37 separate snowfalls in the past 40-45 days. The season total- with a month of winter to go, is 62″, a 20 year record.
And with zero melting in between. It just stays below freezing, often well below freezing. Along my back walk, where I’ve shoveled the snow up onto the yard, the wall of snow is at least shoulder height.
Usually in winter it’s kind of fun to track the animals based on their footprints, but this year there are no footprints— they are either traveling under the snow or they are nowhere.
Likewise the birds. I’m not seeing any. There were some bright blue finch-like ones on my porch about 10 days ago (someone suggested indigo buntings, and they do look like that, but we’re awfully far north for indigo buntings.), but I haven’t even seen a sparrow in a week. I always leave seed pods for them— angelina, phlox, sedum, coneflower— but the snow is so deep that the 2 foot tall heads of the plants are buried. There’s only northern sea oats and some monarda tall enough to still be visible.
Weather report calls for four days with highs below zero (that’s fahrenheit, folks). Then a maybe 33º on Thursday, before it plunges again for almost a week. Oh, and two possible snow “events” in there too.
I like winter as a rule, but I’m just worn out by this one.
Not Dabbling In Normal 
I spent a long 6 hours in the Chicago airport on Saturday and it snowed the entire time. The snow was very beautiful to watch, but I was ready to get home. One by one, the flights that were coming and going from the smaller airports around the area, all started to cancel. I was so tired, and unfortunately so sick again, I was just ready to change our flights for 2 days later and check into a hotel and go to sleep. We made it home, but I must say I do seem enjoy the cooler weather, the hot flashes are so much more manageable! Today we have freezing rain again – 4th time in 4 weeks. Makes for some excitement around here! I guess I prefer the 30F to the -30F.