Tuesday, 10:00 am: Mother Nature has done it; we have our first snowfall for this, the beginning of our winter season. The birdfeeder will need to be filled, and I need to find our snow shovel. Now If I can just remember where I put it! The snow has lifted my wife’s spirits, she loves winter and snow. Her winter passion is to snowshoe in the woods, but for now there isn’t quite enough to go exploring.

Our front yard this morning

Luckily for me I finished working on my ham radio antenna yesterday. I had it up and down so many times I lost count. It is in good working order now, and probably no thanks to my skills, just persistence. I am just not very adept at getting things right the first time. I am accused of being an inveterate tinkerer.

Looking north toward Canada

My wife will be on the telephone shortly talking to her sister in Germany and telling her about the snow. We were briefly busy converting the amount into millimeters. I can’t say if they had snow in Berlin, but I suspect not. Dang! My wife found our snow shovel. It’s that time once again to bundle up. Ciao.

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

Temperature: 40° [F.]

Barometer: 30.154 & rising slowly

Humidity: 91%

Wind: NW at 2 mph light & variable

Visibility: ca. 3 miles under cloud base

Skies: 100% overcast

Precipitation: 1½ inch snow – now slowly melting

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 32.8° [F.] at 12:01 am

High wind: 10 mph 1:11 am