I love the first week of the New Year. There's so much excitement and anticipation. It's almost like being at the start of a race waiting for the gun to go off.
But in the Midwest, things are not about to take off. In fact, they are about to slow way down - even more than they already have. It's about to get even more dark, more dead. It seems like the only thing that's getting started is winter.
The beautiful thing about winter and the…