Winter is Definitely Coming.

11-12-18 VERMONT: The last two days have been sunny, breezy and very cold. I cleaned up the last of the beds yesterday and did a bunch of chores today—putting the barn windows in and locking them, bringing firewood into the house, moving the picnic table off the deck and onto the terrace and then wrapping up the rockers and the table in a big tarp, putting put the snow shoveling tools for the deck, cutting up and clearing some deadfall in the pasture, re-doing mouse traps and other stuff I already forgot.

I had dinner with cousin John in Hanover last night.

The afternoon sun lights up the western sides of the New Hampshire mountains that are in our views. They are snow covered and may well stay that way until April. Yesterday morning the pond was iced over at the ends, and the ice extended along the sides of the pond during the day. Today it was completely frozen, except for a two-foot wide hole above the entry point for the springs. Some of the snow on the ground has evaporated, but more is due tomorrow and Friday.

NJ tomorrow.


Mt. Lafayette, in the White Mts, looking very white.

Mt. Moosilauke also looking snowy.

The pond is frozen over except for a small open spot above the spring.