From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/1/2021 7:42 AM, Nyssa wrote:   
   > songbird wrote:   
   >   
   >>    i think it will mostly be melted by the end of the week   
   >> but at least i did get some exercise in this morning   
   >> shovelling.  :)   
   >>   
   >>    my body appreciated it.   
   >>   
   >>    not much going on gardening wise outside, i need to get   
   >> some grass out of a garden before it gets too cold for the   
   >> winter, maybe Thursday if i'm lucky.   
   >>   
   >>    inside just doing the usual fall routine, getting some   
   >> things sorted and cleaned up and put away.   
   >>   
   >>    managed to clear off a whole shelf on one of my   
   >>    bookcases   
   >> of old computer printers that people had given me saying   
   >> that they worked.  the other day i needed to print   
   >> something and my normal printer wasn't working so i tried   
   >> out the ones i had been saving for such an event and found   
   >> out they didn't   
   >> work either.  so the whole shelf gets to go out in the   
   >> garage to wait until the next recycle drop off happens   
   >> next spring   
   >> and i get a shelf back.  my original printer i hooked back   
   >> up after figuring out where it was jammed and it printed   
   >> fine.   
   >> c'est la vie.  :)   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>    songbird   
   >   
   > Back when I lived in the Toledo area ~40 years ago, our first   
   > snow was usually around Halloween or a few days before.   
   >   
   > I heard someone on the radio in Toronto complaining that they   
   > had their first snow over the weekend.   
   >   
   > I know that you're in mid-Michigan, so I'd say those data   
   > points are interesting and may be part of the climate change   
   > process that is occurring, at least if this seemingly later   
   > date for first snowfalls has become an annual event.   
   >   
   > Anyone one else notice a later first-snow date that's   
   > started moving later on the calendar over the past few   
   > decades?   
   >   
   > Nyssa, who thinks gathering more data is usually a good thing   
   >   
   >   
      
   Previously, we would almost always be up at the ski areas playing by   
   this point. Still brown on the slopes as seen on the cams this morning.   
   I can remember skiing by Halloween years ago.   
      
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