The thermometer read 17 degrees as I pulled into Carrolwood last Friday... 

In spite of the cold temperatures, I was excited.  It was the first of two stops I would be making that day, delivering my newsletter...

                                                  
                              -Carrolwood Subdivision on a bright and sunny day.

I was dressed in several layers.  It would be important for warmth as well as padding...

My primary concern wasn't the temperature, but the icy conditions resulting from the wet snow we had two nights prior...

Had the associations shoveled?

Along with Carrolwood in Naperville, I would also be visiting River Bend in Lisle... 

                                
                                 -I was the lone "walker" in River Bend on this day...

River Bend and Carrolwood are my two primary "farm" areas.  I would be personally delivering my "View" to over three hundred doors...

                               
                                -More than 1000 icy and slick steps awaited me in River Bend... 

I knew the going would be cold and hazardous.  But I also knew it would be my last marketing "blitz" of the year...

A long day. 

But an important one.  Well worth it...

Marketing always is...

Ken

-Ice spreads over Lake Carrolwood...

-You can almost feel the cold...

-Lake River Bend on a cold December day...