It is extremely cold here and a bit early for our week of single digit to negative weather- not able to walk the dogs far because their feet get too cold (I know time to head home when one holds up his paw - but he wants to go so we just keep it short). The cat is quite cranky.
I don't consider being prepared for winter to be anything special or worthy of kudos in and of itself. My mother (and everyone else) used to run out and get milk and bread - which just made us tease her because we didn't really eat bread or milk but by golly she wanted us to have it if we got iced or snowed in - where we lived growing up - ice was more of a reality than snow.