While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

That's what I'm out here to do. Compete and win. It makes the winter months a whole lot better.

Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.

Better to dress too warm and be warm, then to dress too cold and be cold.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.