They love leaves from my Dogwood trees but never eat enough to hurt the trees. I can watch them through my sliders and they're only 10 feet away, if I don't move they keep on eating.
2 here and probably the low, got down to 2 last night too. I don't get below zero too often here, place I lived in the nearly 90's use to radiate well and hit -20 twice.
I'm an eternal optimist, always hoping for a broken forecast, used to happen a lot when I was a kid so I still have that mentality. As far as the Patriots I think a foot of snow here is more likely than them winning tonight.