And Just Like That, Summer Comes to an End

The prairie weather is a never ending source of fascination to me.  Yesterday our highest temperature was +27C, sunny and beautiful.  I woke up this morning to a cold rain, a temperature of +1C and forecast daytime highs of only +9C to +12C for the entire week.  It will be freezing now overnight.

I feel sorriest for the southern Alberta farmers today. They are watching the snow falling on their freshly swathed crops still laying on the ground, waiting to be combined.  We may get some of that lovely white stuff here as well in the next day or two.  Well, we can pray that it is a short lived bit of weather and that the sun will soon be shining, drying out the swath and leaving good grade crops to be sold.  

Usually when there is snow this early it means there is some good weather for a month or two following closely behind.  Hope that is the case this year or the length of our winter will be truly unbearable.

My husband is happy he spent all the time he spent yesterday repairing one of the bird feeders and getting in some good seed for the winter months. He spilled a bit on the back deck and the bluejays and thrashers could hardly wait for him to leave so they could dive bomb the deck and scoop up some favourite seeds.  Now he just has to fix up the heating tape for the waterer and all will be in place just in case winter is coming early after all.

We are having good friends from seminary over for lunch today. They have just been assigned to a church about an hour south of us. What fun for us to have them in the area. They will be in our town fairly often for their shopping and errands.  I am going to make a particularly good lunch today to celebrate their newest posting....and to keep us warm on a cold day!!  The furnace will be going on once my husband wakes up this morning.

It is going to be a grand afternoon of picking all the mint my husband grew this summer.  As it may freeze overnight tonight, we want to get it into the house for drying.

The rest of the week will be spent getting the house back in order after a month of holidays.  My husband's sister and her husband are coming to stay with us next weekend so I want the house to be as sparkly as it can be after so much neglect! Hopefully they won't be arriving with their big RV to find snow on the ground here. Brrr!