Fog Prediction

Mike said the awful word last night. Scared the dickens out of me. Wanna know what that word was? Starts with an S and ends with a W.

His fog prediction says we are to get precipe/snow November 5th. I missed that bit of fog, thinking it would either be rain or just a dusting of snow. I'm not ready. The last time I thought we were to get precipe/snow the first part of November was a La Nina and there was no way to track the snow. I'm hoping that it's an El Nino and I'll just suffer with a bit of snow if we are to get snow next weekend.

Maybe the snow will stay in other states or the precip will go to states that depserately need it. I can't imagine snow right now. The yard is still a mess and I'm just not ready (insert temper tauntrum).

I expect it'll snow next weekend though. Why you ask? Because Mike is taking a well deserved vacation over November 5th and it'll just be me, the horses, the dogs, and the barn cats over the weekend. So, not really "alone." The plow is finally ready for some action, although I hope there isn't much snow to push. But I would rather be too prepared than not prepared enough.

I'm hoping to sit down and mark the calendar a little closer. Mike was keeping a better watch than me apparently. I'll keep my fingers crossed that it'll only be a rain shower instead of snow. I still have fencing to finish and blankets to wash and mend. The blankets pretty much sat wherever I took them off last spring, thinking I would get to washing, reparing, and waterproofing long before winter rolled around again. Guess not.

On the bright side, we haven't really had any more fog lately. So from what I can tell, there's no major snow storms set in motion until February. Somehow I think this is a La Nina year. Anyone else a nerd like myself and track weather through old wives tales? I'd love to hear your predictions for this winter.