According to the late Ogden Nash, the best place to face the notorious New England winter was “at the bottom of Florida.” Alas, the Poetess of the Prairies, Sarah Binks, never had that option. On the family farm outside Willows, Saskatchewan, she penned:
A long, quiet winter with plenty of snow,
And plenty of barley; it’s eighty below;
Barley in the heater, salt pork in the pantry –How nice you never feel cold in this country.
