First Snowfall

Well there has to be a first day of it every year, but does it have to be in November?  We are in the middle of receiving our first snowfall of the year today.  The yard is all white and while it didn't stick to the road or trees, it is a sure sign of what is to come.  While it isn't predicted to stay around long as temperatures will climb out of the freezing mark later this week, I did spend time last week putting away the lawn mower and getting the snowblower tuned up.  Another exciting 4 to 6 months of throwing snow.  No reason to get it out today, but I'm ready for the first big, driveway covering snow.

We had a nice weekend enjoying a visit from Jo's roommate in college, Mary, and her hubby, Greg.  As part of the weekend festivities we finally managed to get to the Sprecher Beer plant to take the tour and do a little beer/soda tasting.  It is quite a great deal, for $5 you get a tour of the plant and then all the soda tastings you want and up to 4 beers to taste.  Plus you get to keep the serving glass.  Jo figured you could spend an entire afternoon there with lunch for around $9.  It is an especially good deal if you take someone like me along that doesn't like to drink beer all that much - although, I did enjoy my share of the soda.

The rest of the time with Mary and Greg was spent catching up on the happenings of their first year of marriage along with all the news from Quincy - Jo's hometown, in case you forgot.  We also bored them with having to sit through pictures from our safari, but we were semi-kind and only made them do the 230 photo version.