Too, too cold. Too, too soon.

Winter has arrived way too fast. It's not so as the photo, but, it was in the low low 40s in the morning and never climbed above 49 all day.

In fact, to help out the chill factor, mother nature saw fit to dump a heapin' batch of wind on us - enough to fill an advisory complete with gusts up to 40 mph.

MMM

Cold, freezing wind that drops the temperatures into the 30s. Enough so that the few random rain drops that have been forced squeezed from the sky were compressed into ice crystals, aka, snow flurries.

This cold weather is way too soon in the calendar. It's not supposed to snow until November. The almanac is calling for a snowy winter - yuck. So, I'm calling it now, in writing: 12-16 days out this winter.

Oh and yeah? What am I wearing in the horribly cold weather?

At school, flip-flops, capris, and a light cotton dress t-shirt. By lunch, my room was hot enough to cause a general lethargy in me and the kids, and topped out at 80 degrees.

At home, where general sanity rules (ha, not) shorts, jeans, sweat pants, wool socks, turtle neck, tee-shirt, sweat shirt, and fleece hoodie.

It's howln' like a mad dog driven to the brink by a full moon, and the smell of fresh blood wafting on the breeze.

I HATE winter.

My goal is to morph into a bright songbird and fly south for the winter. Somewhere warm, Florida, Costa Rica. . . .