Today sees the Fall season wind down to an end, and as of 12:30am tonight, the dreaded Winter season is officially upon us. We've been getting quite a break on the weather - here we are, almost to the end of December, and the roads are still free and clear. How much longer can this last? (Probably only as long as it takes me to get my bike back...)
Anyway, the other good news for today is that even though tonight marks the start of Winter, it also signals the end of the shortening-daytimes. Once tomorrow arrives, the days will begin to get longer again. Oh sure, there will be many a cold night and nasty day ahead of us for a while, but the Sun has stretched it's arms as far southward as it's going to this year. Even as I'm writing this, it's packing it's bags and making travel arrangements to come visit us again.
It's unfortunate that the Sun likes to dawdle on its journey, though. We're all the way up here, begging for it to hurry up, but it's doing the touristy thing and will make us wait about 4.5 months before it settles in over our heads again.
I think we should all pitch in and buy it a plane ticket.
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