Warming to the task

It's 30 degrees warmer today on the NCR, but somehow it still feels like winter.  The successive cold waves sweeping across the northeast have put us on a roller coaster of ice and snow, even as the west coast remains warm and dry.  The rational part of my brain says this is just a temporary movement of the jet stream and by the end of February the blocking high pressure will be history.  The lizard portion of the above mentioned brain is screaming this will never end and we are in a new ice age.  It's time to start some seedlings!  The surest method of combatting winter is the sprouting of the new year's crops.