A couple of weeks ago, we switched from the linen sheets to the flannel sheets. Last weekend, we put away the summer shirts into the back of the closet and brought out the hoodies and fuzzies to get washed after months of sitting in a vacuum bag.
AND TODAY THAT PAID OFF!
We’ve recently changed garbage collection day and it’s now on Thursdays instead of Tuesdays and when I went curbside to pick up the dumpster, holy cow, it was snowing! My head got snowed on and it was cold! So I put up the hood on my hoodie!
Money well spent.
This weekend will be spent IN THE 30s!!! That means extra blankies on the bed! Fuzzier pants! Thicker hoodies! If I go out to Costco or Safeway, I may even wear a flannel shirt. AND WE ARE GETTING *THIS* CLOSE TO GETTING OUR HOUR BACK!!!
This is seriously the best part of the year.
So… what’s on your docket?
I looked at the wrong number.
It’s going to be in the 50s.Report
🙂 Came here to say this. We ended up with close to an inch on the ground. It’ll all be gone by tomorrow, of course. Definitely looking forward to getting my hour back, though.Report
Oof snow before Halloween? The sound of it makes me shiver. I couldn’t handle being any further north (or much more west) than I am. Even the sort of slushy Mid-Atlantic winters we get are tough for me, especially after the time changes.
I will be doing the usual stuff with my son (swim lesson, flag football) plus some Halloween activities. My wife and I did our annual viewing of Trick ‘r Treat last night, and I finished off a bottle of bourbon I’ve been working on for awhile. We’ll carve jack-o-lanterns tomorrow before football. Bonus will be on Monday, with a small gathering of friends with kids plus some relatives since my neighborhood is awesome for trick or treating. One of my brothers will be in town from overseas, and he is bringing his girlfriend who is excited to see Halloween in the US. Should be a good time.Report
When the Denver Broncos play on Sunday or Monday nights in September, I always hope for one of occasional September blizzards during game time. In hopes of encouraging people to think the way you are. Since we moved here in 1988, the population has grown from 3.3M to 6M and the Brown Cloud is making a comeback.Report
For many years, “first snow on Halloween” was something that people expected. We probably only got first snow on Halloween 1 out of 4 years but once people started looking for it, they really started counting the hits and ignoring the misses.
(For what it’s worth, the snow was gone by the next day.)Report
As of this morning at 7 am… fresh venison.
I didn’t harvest this one, the middle son took it with the crossbow. Which is something of a passing-of-the-guard moment since I’ve never even taken a shot during archery season – so his success is my diminishing into the west.
[But hey, maybe instead I’ll jump off the elven ship, swim the ocean and flirt with the dark lord(ette) and resist…]
More prosaically I need to order new 3-pt hitch stabilizers because I somehow managed to shear one off while working in the woods last weekend.Report
Googling “3pt hitch stabilizer” does less than I expected to clear up my confusion.Report
Heh, the lower stabilizer bar that connects to the implement… there’s the top hitch and two lower bars that make up a 3 point triangle – so you can raise/lower the implement. I managed to shear one steel bar and broke the shear the pins on the other one (they are designed to shear – which is why I’m so surprised the bar itself broke). You’d think I’d have noticed, but somehow didn’t.Report
If you lived in my neighborhood you could take a shot at a deer from 5 or 6 feet away and it would stupidly stare at you while you did it. These are of course pampered suburban deer who have lost the incentive to evade threats of any kind.Report
This fall, along bicycle trails I use regularly inside the city limits, we have had coyotes, bears, and mountain lions. Deer, too, but they remain understandably cautious. The bigger herbivores — elk and moose — have stayed up in the foothills.Report
My BIL rides all over the Denver mountain trails… always posting pictures of those big mountain animals – not the tiny little whitetails we get round here.Report
There are two deer that have grown up in our front pasture and are now living in the back pastures as well. We’ve extended the Lord’s Magnanimity on them while they are in our pastures; but there’s always a chance they wander back into the woods.Report
Snow before Halloween was not totally uncommon when I was a kid growing up in northeast Ohio; there were a number of years when we had to put parkas on over our costumes, which kind of ruins the effect.
Here, snow is rare any time, and if we do get it, it’s more common in February than any earlier.
Not sure what I’m doing this weekend. I have stuff I COULD do (work stuff) but I’m kind of burnt out (last week was one of those weeks where I’d either be sitting down to work on my own stuff, or going “hey maybe I could leave a few minutes early today” and then NOPE something urgent came up that HAD to be done).
I do have to make something for a potluck tomorrow, I have not totally decided on what.Report
The worst part about the snow in southeast Michigan was that we’d get our first snow in late October and it was as likely as not that that snow would stick around until Easter.
Green Bean Casserole!Report