-43°F, 30-35 mph winds, end of Dec. '75 or beginning of Jan '76, North Dakota in the region around Minot. Never heard anyone mention the term "windchill" in our whereabouts in those days. (There were other things said about the wind, but I won't add them here. 😁 ) Windchill charts show around -78°F -- -80°F for those conditions.

May have been some colder other days when there was no thermometer to see, don't know. I just know that day we were on the highway into town for a while, and I saw a thermometer on a building when we were in there.

Our youngest son was homeschooled to an equivalent Grade 13, Honours English (Ontario had a grade 13 back then). He was 9 when he read "The Chronicles of Narnia". We've always been a family of 'books'. Keats and Schelley were some of my favourites. Kafka was one of my favourites and I made the mistake of letting our son know. This led to a darker side; he liked Kafka, too, maybe more than I did. This took him into the realm of Burroughs, etc. He even read Virgil's work...

An instance of his writing skills, I sent him a copy of an obit that was very unusual (it was a real obit): " Few obituaries begin with the words, "I am pleased to announce" – but Amanda Denis believes in blunt honesty.

When the Ontario resident's estranged father died halfway across the country in B.C.'s Okanagan, Denis felt compelled to share a few choice remarks about the man she describes as a "miserable human."

The obituary that resulted – which Denis ultimately had to publish on her own, after being rejected by her father's funeral home – clearly struck a nerve, getting shared thousands of times on social media.

"After suffering multiple strokes, one thankfully leaving him unable to speak, the abusive, narcissistic absentee father/husband/brother/son finally kicked the bucket," it reads.

"Because he treated people with disdain, there will be no service."

My son's response was, "De mortuis nil nisi bonum...but I never really believed in that saying, and the guy sounds like he was a proper bastard."

This demonstrates his literary skills.