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.
A steady rain today one of those foggy, cold, damp days that we always seem to have in November. The good news is that it is not real cold (52 degrees right now) which is pretty easy on the wood pile. We are having a steady southeast wind at around 20 miles per hour driving the rain. Not a bad day to be working at my desk. I realized this weekend that I have transitioned from guiding full time to working indoors. I was feeling unsettled by the change but did not realize that it had happened. It is not a time with nothing to do but a change in what I do each day.
