the uninhabitable north

It is bitterly cold in Massachusetts this week and I have had to move my lime tree indoors so it doesn't drop its leaves. And I have had to wear long underwear, and long underwear gives me a stomach ache because of the way the elastic cuts across my stomach. And some small animal is trying to avoid the cold by breaking into my office via the attic, and last night it made a lot of noise that woke me up and I chased it off, and it tried unsuccesfully to drag off my emergency desk chocolate bar (for when I can't leave my desk and it is lunchtime), and it shat all over my desk and around my desk.

I contiue to not see the point of latitudes further north than 40°.