Winter arrived!

After all those months of summer, dragging into what should have been fall but wasn’t; after temperatures just last week in the mid-80s, with the A/C running all night… today winter happened. Oh, we still have a little fall color, but it finally started to rain and blow and the temperatures dropped and, wonder of wonders, I was able to turn on the fireplace! The cats are hanging out close by. I’m so relieved! Time for some serious reading and cookie baking.