SNOW!!!

Yes we got snow yesterday -- very tiny flakes, not enough to get a good shot of it coming down, but enough to show up for a few seconds on the dogs back before melting.

Yes it is early this year, or least I don't remember getting any flakes before Halloween before. I remember that when we had the big Halloween snow of 1991 it was a really big deal (it was the same storm as the Perfect Storm of movie fame).

But we got snow - husband had turned on the heat Saturday night under the guise of not wanting the kids to get cold ... they hadn't complained about it yet - well not much anyways.

But we got snow. We really aren't ready for snow yet. We were going to get some hay to put on the septic tanks to keep them from forming a layer of ice on them, and popping the lids (YUCK!) ... we have leaves all over the place again from the winds, they will need to get raked up so we don't get lawn-rot come Spring - a mold condition that can kill grass faster than dog urine and then the only thing that will grow there will be Burrdock.

but SNOW .... I love snow. I have located my snow shoes .... I look forward to taking the little one out to her bus this winter, that is once there is enough snow on the driveway for me to put on the snowshoes and plot down there and then around the property before the older ones leave ...

When I got my snowshoes I swore I was going to use them everyday that I could, as long as windchill was above 0*F (its the rule of thumb in the house) ... but then visiting relatives kind of thru the whole idea out the window ... and once off I get off the treadmill its really hard to get me back on.