This time last year our area was recovering from one of the worst ice storms to hit us since '98 and we also had some snow on the ground.This year the ground isn't froze yet,it's been mild and has rained over Christmas,but seeings how all we had for snow was about a half an inch it didn't hurt our snow cover.It looks like starting tomorrow night that the temps might actually be starting to drop so hopefully the ground will start to stiffen up.If I had the sleds ready to go and wanted to travel a few hours north I could actually go sledding but I don't,at least not yet.If we don't get some snow pretty quick I may have to re evaluate the situation.