Baby it's Cold outside

The temperature is 8-degrees, and it's dropping. My hand stuck briefly to my car's metal door handle when I was returning from an appointment an hour ago. It is coooooold in the Rocky Mountains today. Yesterday, it was 46-degrees. Tomorrow it is supposed to be in the 30's after a night in sub-zero temps. If ever there was proof that the Rocky Mountain region has more freeze-thaw cycles than anywere in the nation, except Taos, N.M., this week is it. We average about 150 freeze-thaw cycles in the Rocky Mountain region, which is why the mortar mixes and some masonry and design detailing techniques have to be different here than in any other region of the country. The rules we play by are just a bit different. Too bad people can't be custom-designed to survive the freeze-thaw cycles as well. Then again, maybe we are. I've heard people in the Rockies are much more laid back and flexible than their counterparts on either coast.