I know it has been a long time since I have posted anything but today is a special day on the mountain. Remember last year when we had our first snow in early November? Well, this year we are having a "snow day" here in mid October. The high for today (at midnight) is 38 and currently it is 33 degrees. Very tiny snow flakes with no accumulation is now occurring. Wayne is outside trying to place an extension cord on the little heater that is wrapped around our water pipes to avoid the hard freeze that is to occur tonight. We have planned to get a battery to do this job this year so we don't have a cord dragging across the yard but we don't have the money for the battery until the end of the month and unfortunately, the weather is not going to wait until then to get cold.
Visibility is about 50-100 feet everywhere outside. The leaves this year started out looking beautiful but the wind, rain and cold weather has pretty much wiped them out as I feared it would. I am so not ready for winter. We haven't had enough of a Fall to be ready for winter yet it feels like it is already here. Some say it will warm up again before winter..... hummmmm, we'll see. Hope they are right. Hope our young bamboo shoots we planted a month or so ago survive this weather (donated to us by a neighbor who got some of our cut down locust trees to use for his fence posts) . They are fairly hardy "trees" so we are hopeful that they will survive and start putting forth that good ole evergreen for us by next year.