I galumphed out of the Landfill this morning with all my work gear, locked the door, and immediately remembered that it was something like 30 degrees. I was dressed for fall with tights and a silk/wool turtleneck, etc., but I HAD NO GLUBS ON! I knew that the forecast was sunny and mid-50s and I had locked the door (why, I do not know because the GG was still inside), so I made the executive decision to suffer for the few minutes it would take for the Ninja to warm up.

Okay. Zippity-doo-dah. Off to work. Aaaandd, for the second time this fall, my cute little Ninja took just a weeeeee bit longer to start than it usually does. The Ninja is such a zippy little vee-hickle that I think of it as new but truth told, we bought it four years ago. It’s probably time… I mean for a new battery, not a new vee-hickle. But it did start up and then I looked at zeee veeeendshield and there was water all over it so what did I do? I flicked on zeee veeeendshield vipers. What would you do? Oops. Errrr, sgratch, swish. That was H₂O on there but it was in its solid state. All right, where is zeee veeeendshield viper scraper. Of course there was one right there in the driver’s side door pocket. This *is* The Great Lake State and we don’t ever remove ice scrapers from our vee-hickles.

I will admit that the ice on my windshield was not particularly solid and it only took a couple of scrapes to eradicate it. I took off for work and I did indeed warm up pretty quickly. (What is really stupid about all of this is that I knew very well how cold it was this morning because when I took my 0-skunk-30 walk, I was appropriately dressed for the weather.)

But. Helloooo… It is October and this is Michigan and more warm weather is almost certainly in our future but this morning was a little heads-up that things *will* go downhill. Last night, my phone weather was alerting like crazy that there could be a frost overnight, and there was. I like to be alerted about lightning and tornadoes and derechos and things. What I don’t understand is why a frost in early October in our upper great lake state merits an alert. The farmers in this state know to expect a freeze at this time of year. It isn’t anywhere near abnormal.

I took that photoooo from “my” work parking place this morning. It’s almost possible to make believe that there are no buildings across that pond. I don’t really have an assigned parking place at work. It’s just that our parking lot is a bit overbuilt and almost nobody (except me) ever parks in the third row out from the building by the pond. So I have picked a spot and I can’t believe how irritated I get on the VERY RARE occasion that someone parks in “my” spot or even next to it. Except when it’s a bird-watching crew there to observe and photograph our diverse avian pond denizens. Those folks are welcome to use my spot!

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