It’s a kind of a good news/bad news situation here.

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The good news, most definitely, is that we’re finally done raking the leaves for this year…

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The bad news is that we’re done raking the leaves for this year because Winter has arrived!

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Possibly the worse news is that we’ve skipped December and January and seemed to have landed in the middle of February as it was -12C outside this morning with a wicked wind making it feel more like -22C.  In fact we haven’t actually been above freezing during the daytime for six days, although it was only just on the cusp or just below, and not much colder than that at night either until yesterday.  It makes me wonder what February has in store for us!

Chin, chin.  I’m off to get a warm cuppa and sit by the fire.