This could be ominous — we're getting our first snowfall right now. It's coming down wet and heavy, too.
I knew this was going to happen. I'd made arrangements for a contractor to come by and do some fairly substantial improvements to the insulation of the house — we're having a couple of doors and a big picture window completely replaced — and I told them it would be highly desirable to have this done before the snow arrived…and they told me yeah, yeah, they'd be out within a couple of weeks. They said that two weeks ago. So I knew they'd never get here in time and that we'd have an early snowfall.
Sorry, Minnesotans, you can blame me.
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