Well I woke up this a.m to the ground covered in snow ! No it did not last long but this is the earliest snow we have had since moving here .We usually have are first snow around Thanksgiving ours not Canada's .As usuall we are not ready for winter .How is everyone else doing ?

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), October 08, 2001

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Noooooooooooooo...I'm not ready yet. (Seems to me I said the same thing last year)

-- Dee (gdgtur@goes.com), October 08, 2001.

Heehee I say it every year.

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), October 08, 2001.

let it Snow! let it Snow! let it Snow! soft and glistening,we're happy tonight,walking in the winter wonderland!!!!!!! I have my Mukluks,dog sled,parka,and red underwear. AH! but alas,no snow.

-- TomK(mich) (tjk@cac.net), October 08, 2001.

I sure miss living where it snows. We get alot of wind and rain...sometimes a little sleet or hail..thats it. I am not completly ready for the rainy season yet even. I did get my hay shelter built, but have some more maintainence type stuff to do...better get on it huh???

-- Jenny (auntjenny6@aol.com), October 08, 2001.

Since moving to the mountains where there's actually winter Bren has given me until October 15th to be ready...my third October 15th closing in and I haven't been ready for one yet...looks like I'm right on schedule. We somehow manage to survive unprepared, but one of these years, I'll be ready!

-- gilly (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), October 09, 2001.

Fortunately, the weather here isn't like yours! High 80's, air conditioner running even at night.

I judge what winter will be like by my livestock. It may be hotter than blazes in August, but they start growing their winter coats. One critter has been 'specially reliable for predicting the weather for many years, but this year is something I've never seen before. The reliable one has white dapples on part of his body when he sheds his winter coat. It's always covered up again by this time of year. The dapples are still there. With his thick winter coat, I can't see his hot brand. It's still clear as a bell.

If he's still my weather forecaster, it's going to be a lovely, warm winter!

-- ~Rogo (rogo2020@yahoo.com), October 09, 2001.

We've had some good frosts here a little early for us-terrific wind rain storm on Friday. I've really hustled last couple of weeks and we're in decent shape-I always feel like I could do more but.....

-- Kelly in Ky (ksaderholm@yahoo.com), October 09, 2001.

Bah...Humbug!!!

Russ

-- Russ Whitworth (rwhitworth@sprint.ca), October 09, 2001.

Last week we were wearing shorts and tshirts..then the weather changed and this morning we had quite a frost. I had an email from my niece in Manitoba last week and she said they had already had their first flurries on the ground! Makes me glad to be where I am!

-- Alison in N.S. (aproteau@istar.ca), October 09, 2001.

Hi Patty,

I was going to e-mail you and ask if you had gotten any snow. A dear friend back home in western NYS e-mailed Sunday and said they ahd snow and he had to plow his driveway. If thats the case then that is the most accumulation of snow i can remember ever. I do recall a Halloween in 94 when it started snowing after dark, I wa sdriving home and the snow was Lake effect and I could barely see, must have got 4 or 5 inches and got stuck going up the hill from townm home. I hadn't put snowtires on yet.

Hope ya'll have a good winter though.

Bernice

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), October 09, 2001.

"SNOW"!!!!, Gee we just received our first heavy frost a couple of days ago. I could do without a lot of snow. Here in Oklahoma our snow is very wet and nasty. It usually isn't until Febuary before it actually gets cold enough to have a dry snow. But I want to enjoy fall for as long as I can. The weather has been perfect here lately. Not running the a/c or heat.

-- r.h. in okla. (rhays@sstelco.com), October 09, 2001.

Hay Patty, How much I envy you with your first snow, I remember living in upstate NY and getting early snow it truly was a gift, of course my husband says I loved it because I don't drive so therefore didn't have to deal with it. I am a snow person and whenever it snow I feel truly blessed, living in Missouri that doesn't happen to often and then it just isn't NY type of snow. Sooooooooo Patty play in the snow for me. Sally

-- sally stanton (mallardhen67@hotmail.com), October 09, 2001.

Our first frost Oct 8 about 2 weeks early from nomal.Central NC

-- jay vance (jay.l.vance@worldnet.att.net), October 09, 2001.

We had snow in Broome County yesterday morning too, just enough to blanket the ground. Last night, we had our first very heavy frost. We've had the woodstove going nights for almost a week now.

I'm *not* ready for this!!

Stacy in NY

-- Stacy Rohan (KincoraFarm@aol.com), October 09, 2001.

Monday morning I had 27*F on the thermomater, thought that was pretty cold until I got up this morning and looked , 20*F. Water in bird bath was frozen(about1/2"). Even covered plants didn't survive. Emory

-- Emory (NE PA) (et@hazleton.net), October 09, 2001.

Wish I could send the cold and snow to some of you .I could use another month of warm weather.

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), October 09, 2001.

Don't mind the cold so much this year. Fired up the wood furnace(new this year)about two weeks ago; boy it's nice and warm in the house now! Good-bye fuel bills. Off on vacation for a week, I'll try to get some work done around the house.

-- Emory (NE PA) (et@hazleton.net), October 09, 2001.

Northern Wisconsin -- snowed on Oct. 6th, right on schedule, complete with killing freeze down to 23 F. Of course, NOW the weather has rebounded and it was 50 F overnight last night, now that everything in the garden has been killed. Just typical.

-- julie f. (rumplefrogskin@excite.com), October 09, 2001.

Hey wait a minit youall can keep my part of that white forever i like sunshine and over nite temps. 65 or 70 Bob se,ks.

-- Bobco (bobco@kans.com), October 09, 2001.

Ahh Snow, I've only been able to dream of such as a little girl. Lived in Texas all my life and never had the op to make a real snow man or angel... My husband and I are wanting to move so we can all have the change of seasons.. ... lucky people!

-- B.Strackbein (blynn@texas.net), October 09, 2001.

Hey Patty, I live not too far from you (northern Vermont), and I sat and watched it snow like crazy on Sunday night. I don't think any of us are ready yet. I've only got about 1/2 the wood stacked. I've still got to put up insulation around the front door and shrink wrap on the windows. The dogs love it though. They are German Shepards and with those thick coats the cooler weather feels great to them. Guess it's all a matter of perspective.

-- Julie (rjbk@together.net), October 09, 2001.

Tom K; If'n ya had been a couple hundred miles north of where your at we could have rolled a snow man!.......but this afternoon I was out workin' in a tee shirt!.....Tryin' to wittle down the *to do's* before the real snow falls.....

-- Jim-mi (hartalteng@voyager.net), October 09, 2001.

Let it all it wants, I'm retired and I can always hibernate untill it gets warm and nice again..Being a retired weatherman I don't let any weather bother me Radar Ohio

-- Robert M. Smith (snuffy@1st.net), October 27, 2001.