(Apologies to Gollum for the syntax of the title. 🙂 )

I am totally disgusted. Last night we got our first snow of the season. GoddessJ said that it wasn’t supposed to stick — it stuck. She said it would be gone by morning — it’s after noon now, and it’s still here. In fact, there’s a good two or three inches out there right now. It’s not even Halloween! 🙁

It was a very heavy, wet snow too. To the point that, on the way home from an appointment this morning, GoddessJ and I counted forty-two trees that had lost large branches. There were five intersections where the traffic lights were out because they’d lost power. Part of our little street was blocked off by a police car (presumably because power lines had fallen across the road, but I couldn’t tell for sure). It looks like the neighbor behind us has one of his neighbor’s entire trees down in his back yard.

I always wondered why deciduous trees drop their leaves every Autumn, and spend all that energy creating new ones in the Spring. Now I know: when they don’t (as they hadn’t yet this year), they’re too vulnerable to a heavy snowfall.

Time to move someplace a little warmer. Aruba, perhaps. 😉