Sunday, 8:00 am: Brrr! It dropped into the high teens briefly this morning. In another month or two, the high teens will look like short-sleeve weather, but not just yet. For me, it is just cold. It’s time, once again, to unpack my long johns and other cold-weather clothing.

Extra points if you can guess what television sitcom this coffee shop exterior was used in - Photo contrbuted by Frank Ames

I was talking with my brother, Frank, on his cell phone Friday night. He was on a car ferry in the middle of Lake Champlain on his way home from work. Even the middle of a large lake in upstate New York has cell phone coverage, and is connected to the rest of the world. I imagine the bottom of the Grand Canyon now has cell coverage. I think wilderness is much less wild than what it was even a decade ago. No more signaling with mirrors and hoping for the best. We’re all tied to the same umbilical cord of technology.

Veterans Day already; some of my old Army buddies from Vietnam give me a call, or I call them. We’re all older, and a few have died since last year. In my mind’s eye I still see many of them as they looked when they were 19 or 20 years old. Unfortunately some never made it past 19 or 20. Hand Salute!

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

Temperature: 20.4° [F.]

Barometer: 30.132 & rising slowly

Humidity: 66%

Wind: WNW at 7 mph light & variable

Visibility: > 3 miles

Skies: Scattered cloudiness

Precipitation: Occasional light snow flurries – none measurable

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 19.9° [F.] at 6:57 am

High wind: 19 mph at 2:01 am