Thursday, 9:05 am: It’s overcast and cool and it seems very typical for November in northern Maine. Our drive to Bangor was delayed until yesterday, due to a scheduling glitch with our pet-sitter. It’s a four hour drive down, four hours amusing ourselves while our car is serviced, and a four hour drive back home. We did eat in a restaurant and do a little shopping for things that are unavailable up here. The last ca. 90 miles we drove in the dark, which is always a challenge looking out for moose and other things that go bump in the dark.

Monday's snow

I’ve installed additional memory for my computer. Now with two GB of RAM, computer multi-tasking seems more effortless. I have to admit, it was never a problem before, but my computer was never pushed to the limits of its capacity. Now it’s like a computer on vitamins, unlike its operator who is drinks Pepsi for his morning pick-me-up. Sugar and caffeine, ahh! Speaking of a pick-me-up, it probably time to bring in a few loads of firewood. It doesn’t look like it will warm up any time soon. We need to keep the chill outside and creature comforts inside.

Our wild birds have returned to our feeder, and the chill doesn’t deter their squabbling over who eats first and who’s higher up the well-established feathered pecking order. Except for the squirrels, it seems to be a pretty straightforward arrangement they have among themselves.

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

Temperature: 35.3° [F.]

Barometer: 30.100 & rising slowly

Humidity: 70%

Wind: WNW at 2 mph light & variable

Visibility: > 3 miles under cloud base

Skies: ca. 90% overcast

Precipitation: None

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 32.9° [F.] at 4:52 am

High wind: 10 mph at 9:02 am