Pretty cool for October.

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I've seen frost.  I may have seen these temperatures, it was 21º at the coolest I saw it this morning... it was 24º before dawn.  But I haven't seen such a hard long cold snap so early.  I will be checking on water for the ducks twice a day, as possible.  Even when it gets up to the mid forties during the day... if it does... it doesn't thaw anything.  The ground, I suspect, is getting cold, holding it.

I have already been out, opened the water for them.  May check three times a day sometimes.  The cold doesn't bother them, but no water does.  They do prefer chick feed.  But I am running out of that.  They will just have to eat pellets... like the rest of us.  I'd love to give them their preference, but this month they are eating, I am not.  They are already ahead.

It must be... I don't know... extra cold out there?  A breeze or wind?  The furnace is struggling.  I can feel the strange extra chill.  It's already winter here, now.  I am still hoping for even a short warm spell but...  well hope is what it is, no more.  It is often the currency for the hopeless.

No shower today.  I need a break.  Tomorrow.  So no dishes.  Hmm, though there aren't very many dishes?  So, maybe, if I can wake and warm up!  Ugh.  It would be good to have those clear.  I really have improved a few areas.  I would sure like to do more, and stay ahead.  Turn my cave into a house, then on into a home.  If... I could just wake, and stay awake for long enough.

Later.