BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE.... BRRR..

As I strolled thru the house at 0:30 hour this

am... looking at the white on the lawn.. and

some of the flowers frozen... the song came

to mind.   (I remember it being sang in a

movie with, I believe it was sang in  

Neptune's Daughter by Esther Williams in the

late 1940's)

Even the house was so dang cold....then it dawn

on me, the afternoon before was really warm and

I had the door open....so I had turn the furnace

down to 60!!!   HOLY COW.. 

So sapped that baby up to 75...and grabbed

a cup of coffee. 

In the afternoon, I went out to survey the condition

of the remaining flowers.  Dumped the frozen

ones in the compost pile. Still have the ones

next to the deck doing pretty well.  And only

2 left of the in the yard ones.  And the pot with

the raspberry bush that we are going to transplant,

had a slice of ice covering it all.

Had to admit.. it is fall and heading to winter. So

took the remaining table and chairs off the deck

and put them away. That is my way of conceding

to the fact that snow is coming.

Even the windshield had ice on it. So that means

if I want to go anywhere in the morning, I have

to plan on 10 minutes ahead of heading out.. so

I can start the car and run the defroster.

Oh, well... just a mere only 150 days to Spring.

Geesh, 150 days seems like a long time... oh,

its a long, long time from  December to May....

(backwards from the song but true..)