Hello Snow?

This morning I woke up to the first snow of the season.  I was not expecting it at all.  I still have to plant garlic!  We’ve had some rain lately, and the ground has just been too wet to use the tiller.  Honestly, where I live, we have been so spoiled this October up until this morning.  The weather has been warm, though damp, and little old naive me believed that just maybe we’d get through Halloween with nice temperatures, and after that I didn’t care what happened. 

Well folks, obviously this is my "wake up call."  This morning's weather set my mind racing, thinking about all the things that need to be done or put into place for the winter, soon.  Like, right now soon.

Time to dust off the electric water buckets, make sure the heat lamps are in place, figure out what to do with the 3-week old chicks that are camping out in my kitchen at the moment; order the
last load of hay, stock up on enough bedding to last 3-4 months, etc.  The list goes on, believe me.  It all seems too daunting really.

On another note, this colder weather has caused me to put the wood stove into action, and I must say, it is working fabulously!  The house is so warm and cozy.  Wood only has to be thrown in once before bedtime, once in the morning, and then once (or not) during the day.  I can actually walk around the house in shorts, comfortably.  Amazing.  I just hope I have enough wood to get through the winter.  And, there is still a lot more left to cut and stack, which needs to happen soon before anymore of the white stuff falls.  Gloves... OMG I need new gloves!  And flannel sheets!  I better go grab my list.