Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I’ve been back in DIY mode working on finishing the footings for our new deck – passed inspection! This past weekend I was hoping to get ahead on some posts, but I had to stay up to test some servers at work Saturday night to make sure they didn’t switch over during the old DST time change at 2am. Getting up for the boys 8am hockey practice was brutal. I’m still tired, but hopefully another good night of sleep will get me recharged.

My plans to pour the last of the cement into my footings was nixed due to the cold weather yesterday. Instead I went to work replacing the rubber gaskets on the bottoms of the garage doors. While Ethan and I were finishing up the second door I noticed the rain hitting my coat started making a different noise. I turned around to see SNOW. Our first flakes of the season. Only lasted a minute, but it sure got Ethan excited. No snowfall is in our forecast so he’ll have to wait a little longer for any snowman building. Although a snowball fight is always available at the ice rink.

This morning we had our first thick frost of the Fall. We also had a touch of hoar frost in places. This is a phenomenon I’d never seen until we moved to our house. We have lots of rivers, streams, and ponds around and with all the hills and valleys we get some serious fog in the morning. When the water is warm and the air gets really cold we sometimes get beautiful freezing fog and on rare occasions a hoar frost where everything is coated in crystal formations. I was running late to work so I didn’t get a chance to take any pictures, but I still have photos from the first hoar frost I witnessed. Click on the photos to get a good look at the ice crystals.

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