Later today when I cover the Aberdeen Central girls' softball team’s inaugural home game, I will set a less noteworthy mark: my first assignment in over a week. My sympathies go out to the area schools and their spring sport athletes that have had to cope with the final blast of winter over the northeast corner of South Dakota. I share their anxiety of will there be games and enough opportunities to even make it a season, what with all the snow still littering tennis courts, tracks and golf courses. But I felt the need to share a few words and more notably a pair of photographs that I believe tell the tale of woe we have all lived recently. A brief explanation first. I carry on a family tradition of “How’s the weather up there?” that I started with my father years ago when I first moved to Aberdeen. These days the conversation is shared with my daughter who resides in a Kansas City suburb. Needless to say I am the one usually providing a weather report, that is where t