Good pipe smokin' weather here in the St. Louis area -- if you're like me, on the inside looking out.
Nothin' quite like a warm cup of coffee and a pipe on a cold, snowy winter's morn.
It's colder than a well-digger's butt, but we dodged snowmaggedon.
The local TV weather folks had whipped the local populace into a frenzy, calling for the worst storm in 30 years.
Wrong again.
The storm dumped a few inches of ice, sleet and snow on the St. Louis area but veered north and west, before it headed up toward Chicago.
Interstate 70 between the western edge of metro and Mizzou in Columbia was shut down because of blizzard conditions last night.
However, we actually got more ice and sleet than snow.
The windchill is now about zero and will be well below zero tonight.
Good day to stay inside and make red beans and rice with cornbread -- and keep my pipe stoked.
This might be a 7-bowl day.