From: Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net   
      
   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   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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