Actually, DB, I like your construction better.

With the comma that I suggested, the sentence implies that the clause "as the winter weather is hitting us hard here" has something to do with that which the author wishes to share, which is not the case.

Actually, now that I consider it further, I would have written it thusly:

As the winter weather is hitting us hard here, and we are all having fun with the twenty inches of snow that God gifted (?) us since yesterday, I just wanted to share this with all of you:


"Difficult....not impossible"