Field and Garden: Cold weather, holiday gifts and poinsettia care

Thanksgiving Day was cold in Foster County, with temperatures dropping steadily throughout the day from a high of 14 degrees just after midnight to a low of minus 1.

In the past 30 years of weather records, only two Thanksgiving Days were colder than this year: 2010 and 2014.

The National Climate Prediction Center recently updated its winter forecast.

The weather models indicate that North Dakota...