So this was the scene here in Minnesota on Saturday morning. Yes, that four letter word-- SNOW has made its presence known again. Then we got even more SNOW two days later. They are predicting snow again early next week! What gives? The nectar in my hummingbird freezer is frozen and hopefully the hummingbirds are headed south by now. I have this visual image of a hummingbird coming to visit my feeder in this weather, hitting frozen nectar with its beak, and going, "What the...?" This is the earliest accumulating snowfall that I can remember and I've been around a while! Snow usually doesn't visit until early to mid November, but this has been a very cold October so far. I was lucky to have cleaned up my gardens and put away my planters and patio furniture last Thursday. Our neighbor helped us pull our pontoon out of the lake today (thanks Gary!) and now we just need to pull out the dock and we'll be (pretty much) ready for winter. I was getting the Halloween decorations out, but it feels like I should be setting up the Christmas tree instead.
I sketched out part of an idea for a cross stitch design the other day, but I haven't had time to do much with it since I've been busy working. I just finished up my "bad week" at work. That just means that it is the week that I work six out of eight nights. The good thing is that now I will have six nights off until I have to work again. That is the good thing about working 12-hour shifts, more days off in a row than just the two on the weekend.
Speaking of work, the H1N1 flu has hit Minnesota with a vengeance. Our ER has been a revolving door for people with "influenza-like illness". Unfortunately, there is not much we can do for it since it is a virus. It's shaping up to be a long winter!
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