Nor’easter, shmor’easter — Let’s go for five in a row!

All right, I admit I may have jumped the gun a couple weeks ago when I wrote about eagerly anticipating our household's celebration of Final Fire Day, when we finally would joyously shut down the wood stove for the season.

"Been burning a lot of wood lately?" my buddy Colburn Graves, all bundled up, asked with a sardonic grin the other morning when the temperature plunged into the low 20s and we braced for yet another nor'easter.

Clearly the weather gods have been up to their usual tricks, so now I'm taking a different tack: Bring on more deep freezes and furious storms! Forget about weenie nor'easters that only coat the ground with an inch or two of slush, even though forecasters warned we would be buried by a foot or more of heavy, wet glop — let's have some real, raging blizzards!

After all, it's still March. According to Ryan Hanrahan, the NBC Connecticut chief meteorologist, measurable snow has fallen in the state in April 104 times since 1905. So we have a lot to look forward to, and not just in April.

In 1977, a freak storm dumped nearly two feet of foot of snow May 9-10. I remember that well because just as the flakes started falling I tagged along with the Fitch High School cross-country team on a 10-mile run through Haley Farm and Bluff Point in Groton. With-

in the first quarter-mile one of the top guys on the team skidded and gashed his knee, but somehow we all slipped and slid our way the rest of the way. By the time we finished the snow was ankle deep, with much more to come.

Hey, you know what? I think by now most of us are sick to death of whining about the relentless cold and four nor'easters in a row.

Let's talk about something else, such as how the United States no longer will ban the import of legally-hunted elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia; or how U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt spent $25,000 on a soundproof phone booth and also ran up more than $163,000 in air travel expenses in his first year by flying first class, as well as aboard military aircraft and charter flights; or how Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke took a $12,000 chartered flight on a private plane owned by oil and gas executives, as well as similarly high-priced airplane trips with his wife on the taxpayers' dime — all the while cutting spending on programs designed to help protect the environment and setting policies that stick it to the public.

Here are some of Zinke's actions since taking office:

— Announced plans to jack up entrance fees at popular national parks.

— Shrunk the borders of four national monuments.

— Reversed a ban on coal mining on public lands.

— Paved the way for oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Pruitt, meanwhile — the same guy who, as Oklahoma attorney general, sued the EPA a dozen times — has taken similar measures once he took over the agency. According to CBS News, since his confirmation "Pruitt has embarked on record-setting rollbacks, including filing a proposal to undo Obama-era climate change regulations, legalizing plans to repeal pollution in the nation's waterways, delaying rules requiring fossil fuel companies to rein in leaks of methane and greenhouse gases, and reversed a ban on the use of a pesticide the EPA deemed dangerous to children's health."

We could also talk about Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson's decision to use $31,000 in taxpayer money to buy a new dining room set, and then blame his wife — I guess they don't watch those annoying Bob's Furniture commercials in D.C.; or about Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's eight government trips that cost a whopping total of $1 million; or about doctored emails that allowed Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin to bring his wife along on a trip to Europe and charge the government; but since those cabinet members don't have much to do with The Great Outdoors I won't dwell on them.

Anyway, how about that weather ...