Brrrr!

Before I (finally!) finish the blog posts about

1) summer visits of old friends
2) Gramma & Grampa's absolutely lovely visit
and our trek into the Vosges
3) the first day back to school, and
4) being green

I thought I would mention... the weather!

The weather? you ask.

Yes. The weather.

After two and a half months of autumnal summer (as in: it was like late September through October in, say, Iowa City) which began mid-to-end June, we have come to the beginning of September. This morning, all dressed for late October weather, in order to go house-hunting, I stepped out the door and was... COLD!

It was about 5°C. The sky was (and still is) a heavy, slate grey. And it almost got down to freezing last night.

I am still in shock.