We had our first snow today. October was amazingly warm and mild for October around here. There were few mornings where it was cold enough to frost. It was September weather all throughout October and was enough to make one wonder if this was a portent of the winter to come.
Then November arrived. It seemed almost as soon as November came the wind arrived. Bitter, gusting, strong wind. A cold wind that heralded winter. There was cold rain, and hail. Then, this morning, large white flakes came floating thickly down.
What started as a gentle snow shower this morning quickly turned quite miserable. The wind returned with a vengeance, whipping about so much that when I looked out the window from my writing it seemed as if the first snow storm of the year was trying to make itself into a blizzard.
What a change from October. Now I wonder if the slowness in the onset of chill weather only means it is going to be more savage for the rest of the winter. Last winter was brutal enough. I don’t want any more brutal early morning bike rides, or any time spent unfreezing water pipes.
I hope this is just fickle November weather.
After raging through this morning the snow storm finally moved on and a bit of sunshine has poked through. It’s that weak later fall-early winter sunlight that is weak and bleak and does nothing to diminish the chill of the wind that howls outside.
The chickens were quite miserable. I’m reminded that I need to put a latch on the chicken house door so that it will stay shut. Then I’m reminded that I need to build an add-on to the chicken house so the chickens have someplace to eat out of the snow and wind during the most bitter parts of the winter.
Days like these are only reminders that winter is coming on fast, and half the things I intended on doing before it arrived haven’t even been started. Most annoying is that one must face up to the fact that half of them won’t even get done.
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