Tuesday, 8:50 am: Another fine and misty morning at the edge of the country. I am peeking over the edge right now, and they’re peeking at me. It reminds me of the song, Holidays in the Sun. Well not exactly, but if you know the song, you get the idea about looking over the border.

In any case it is misty outside and once again I am delaying slogging through our damp lawn to attend to garden chores. At the rate our weather is cooling down I’ll be putting away our garden tools and cranking up our snow blower soon. Okay, I am exaggerating just a bit! We already have a small amount of frost damage in our vegetable garden, and the regrowth of our lawn each week has slowed down significantly. But that’s good news; less mowing for this writer.

This evening is our monthly trip to Fort Kent for our radio club meeting. As always it should be interesting. Sometimes the drive back in the dark is more interesting, depending on what oversized animal is facing us in the road. I think they are wondering whether to hop through our windshield, or do they just enjoy messing with us. I have been reading too many of Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoons. As you can see my university education has been put to good use – or not. Again, there’s no accounting for taste.

Current values from our wireless Davis Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 56.8° [F.]

Barometer: 29.936 & steady

Humidity: 100%

Wind: Calm

Visibility: < 1 mile

Skies: 100% overcast light fog & mist

Precipitation: .02 inch rain

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 52.5° [F.] at midnight

High wind: 2 mph at 6:36 am