It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas

Last weekend and the first part of this week were unseasonably warm. We actually went to the polls on Tuesday without a jacket as it was in the low 70s. The predictions for the rest of the week were for the temperatures to drop and possibly have snow over the weekend. It rained all day Thursday, but wasn't too cold. Low and behold Friday morning when I went outside to leave for work there was 4 inches of snow on the Escape that I had to brush off! It snowed until noon and then turned to rain as the temperatures rose to 33 and most of the snow was gone that night. When we woke up on Saturday it had snowed another inch or two and the high for the day was 27 . Today we can't get our windows open to let any fresh air in because they are frozen shut. It is supposed to warm up this week though and be in the 40s later in the week. I'm not sure that is really warming up, but I think the cold weather is here to stay. I have already been playing Kenny Chesney's Christmas CD (not when Jason is around) and am getting in the Christmas spirit and it isn't even Thanksgiving yet! I guess snow and below freezing weather has that effect on me!

Jason took this Friday morning before leaving for work Another picture Friday morning, looking across the rooftop

Yesterday afternoon Jason & I went to Mankato shopping. I was surprised at how busy the town was especially since it was opening day of shotgun season (for deer) or maybe that is why it was so busy! It was pretty cold out too and some of the roads were nasty. We saw a couple of vehicles in the ditch on our way there and had to drive slow on our way home because of ice on the road. I did take some pictures on the way there so here are a few more of our first snow of the season!

My work Saturday afternoon

That is standing corn out in the field.

Not sure if you can tell from the picture, but the wind is blowing like crazy- I don't think it ever stops! Yesterday the high was 27, but with the windchill it was 16. Oddly enough, people don't think that is cold yet- I can't wait to see what they do call cold!

Our trip started out to do some shopping for Christmas, but we weren't successful with that. We made a total of four purchases, all for us, and one of them was dinner at Applebee's. I guess I am going to have a lot to do on Black Friday!