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After several weeks of warm and wet it feels like January. When Argy and I went for our walk this morning it was eight degrees and the temperature at eleven is just eighteen. When it is cold like this it gets uncomfortable to sit at my desk for long periods of time because the floor in the office is so cold. Luckily I can take a laptop in and sit by the woodstove to do my writing. I am sure that this cold snap will put a coat of ice on the lakes and ponds although we are a few days from a solid covering. The best part is some discussion of a snow storm over the weekend.

We are enjoying a very mild December with only a little snow early on and now a warm and settled stretch. The grass on the lawn is still green but luckily not growing. The wood pile is not shrinking at the normal rate. There is not much more than flurries in the forecast for the next week. So I guess we will have a green Christmas instead of white this year. I noticed today that not only is there little ice on the local ponds but the loons are still swimming around in them.

It was 55 degrees today at noon; cloudy and damp with a little fog. This November has set records for being wet. November is normally our wettest month but was even more so this year. The water in the river has just fallen back into its banks after being at or near flood stage most of the month. I was at a meeting last evening with folks from the mountains in the western part of Maine and they told me that even the peaks did not have snow.