Nathanael,

So far this winter has been fairly mild here in STL, so I've been able to get out and play a quite a few times (although the bottom dropped out yesterday).  Luckily, I have a Golf Galaxy close by and I can take advantage of their "simulator" deal to hit indoors once or twice over the next couple of weeks.  Last winter was an entirely different story, so once the snow melted and the temps hit that reasonable range, I hit the range.  I started off with wedges and hit small buckets the first two or three times out just to get back into the swing motion.  Once I started to feel comfortable with my swing, then I started progressing up the ladder (short irons, mid irons, hybrids & FW's and Driver).

Whatever plan you put into practice, best of luck with it!

I'm from Western Massachusetts and that 6-8 weeks seems like a long time away.  Its -11 out with a few feet of snow on the ground and no relief insight.   Anyways, to answer your question, this is what I do.   I start with one of my wedges, usually an action wedge and hit a few dozen balls getting my swing into the groove.  I then switch to a seven iron and after that to a five iron and then to a five metal wood.  I do this until I feel comfortable with the progression and after all that, the one metal wood.  I do look forward to the up coming season but for now skiing is the thing with great conditions here in the east!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Ditto on that we set a new record in Illinois yesterday.