Every year winter sort of creeps up on me, it is here today for sure. With the snow cover temperatures can fall pretty quickly at night this morning it was 5 degrees when we went for our walk. At any rate each winter I am surprised when the heated water buckets are needed in the kennels (usually around Thanksgiving), the dogs should come in at night because of the cold and how quickly the wood pile melts away. At my age you would not expect all of that to be so surprising.
Our first real snowstorm arrived today. I snowed off and on over the weekend and the lawn has been white a few times this fall but today is the first real storm. We are predicted to get between 4 and 6 inches. It has been snowing since before daylight and everything is white. Of course this marks the beginning if winter and I am not ready. 
Recently I attended a small business event and had the chance to meet in person someone that I had been talking with online casually for over a year. Her parting remark to me was happy camping. I realized that even after interacting on social media, reading my blog and looking at my web site she assumed that I was all about camping. Not at all the case. There was a time when extended camping trips were a large part of my summer season but that was twenty years ago now.
