Field and Garden: Winter weather and upcoming programs

I asked friends at the Carrington Senior Citizen Center if they had ever experienced a four-day-long snowstorm like the one we had Dec. 13 – 16.

“Yes,” one person answered, “but never this time of year. Our worst storms have always been in the spring.”

That started a conversation about the March blizzard of 1966.

“That was way worse than this past storm,” said one man. “Many cattle died in 1966. T...