"keep-um warm."

The Indian [said] that every seventh winter was a hard winter and that at the end of three times seven years came the hardest winter of all. He had come to tell the white men that this coming winter was a twenty-first winter, that there would be seven months of blizzards. - The Long Winter, Chapter 7, "Indian Warning"

If I did my math correctly, the winter of 2006-2007 was the most recent twenty-first winter after the Hard Winter of 1880-1881. According to the Indian rule, this winter shouldn't be a seventh winter, much less a twenty-first; it just feels like it.

Wrap yourself a little tighter in that Indian blanket, throw another hay twist on the fire, and do try to stay warm this holiday season!
- posted by pioneergirl at 6:30 PM