Winter has arrived. The hillsides and mountain tops are now covered in
snow. Grey has turned into black and white. It is actually quite pretty.

I’m just not yet ready for winter to arrive. Not that there’s a lot of
stuff that I wanted to do outside, but winter means it gets dark earlier
and stays dark longer. I like sunlight and winter means less of it! Winter
also means wearing more clothes and heavy coats. I’m bulky enough already
and the extra layers seem to magnify that bulk. Finally winter also means
the likelihood of falling down on slick surfaces, e.g. I have to get rid of
snow and ice on the sidewalk, driveway, and porch. That means bulking up so
as not to be too cold and getting out on the slick stuff. I bought a snow
blower to assist in this work. It will be delivered on Tuesday — in
pieces, of course, requiring assembly. Then after it is assembled, it needs
to be put somewhere. Therein lies another problem.

This litany could go on at length. Perhaps because I have a cold, the
advent of winter is more ominous.

My little iPod is becoming quite the tool. I’ve found a website
www.itconversations.com, that has some excellent recordings on it. Highly
recommended. It is so useful to be able to quickly put a recording on the
iPod, listen to it, and then either keep it to listen to again, put it on a
CD to share with someone else, or simply delete it. It is so easy and
convenient. I wonder if Apple knows the power of this device beyond playing
music? I think not, because their next step was to make it able to store
digital pictures and show them on a TV. What they really needed was a voice
recorder!

We are pretty much staying home on this Sunday. I’m (hopefully) on the back
end of a cold, Nina is just coming down with one, and mom has a cold as
well. We’ll get together later this week. I’ve got a couple of Home
Teaching visits to make. Today is Halloween, but most kids came last night.
I’m not expecting any kids tonight. I was surprised by how many
Trick-or-Treaters came by last night. We almost got none in Colorado
Springs. We are at the end of a street with few houses around us. It was
cold with occasional showers. That didn’t deter the kids with some 30 or so
showing up on our doorstep.

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