This is what greeted me on my way to work in the scale house this morning. It means no picking corn today.
This is our old milk house. The chimney vents the sauna stove. Yes, that is right, an old time sauna with heated rocks and buckets of water.
I guess this means an end to the swimming season.
But at least the frost and snow has stopped the Invasion of the Wild Cucumber.
So what to do? Why not a walk around the block? (My block is seven miles around)
Skunk, The Cat will follow us for at least a mile.
Scooter loves the snow. He also loves pheasants, who are not so hot on him.
I never tire of prairie views.
We take our time and two hours later we are almost home and it is still snowing.
Almost Iowa 
My brain can’t even entertain the thought of snow yet. I just can’t.
Looks like winter is sneaking up on you. I’m glad you got outside and took some pictures of the snowy landscape to share. I also had a back cat that would go on walks with me and the dogs- it still strikes me as un-catlike.
That prairie looks desolate, but oh so inviting for walks! In the mid 80s today in CA, and air dry as a bone. Nope, not trading it for snow or even fall foliage. Lived in Maine as a kid when snowed in and no school was pure happiness! 🤣Keeping the Nor’east memories,☃️ but staying in SoCAL. ☀️ Christine
I once lived in The People’s Republic of Santa Monica and loved every minute of it – but still yearned for the wide open spaces.
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Beautiful photos! The roads and fields remind me of central Kansas, which I often miss. But man, it is early for snow.
No snow here in Maine yet, thank the good Lord. We’ve had snow in October before but it is rare. At least you got a good walk out of the snowy day!
And another season rears up. Hopefully, your crop gets an encore from the old one before you fully enjoy the new one.
We got our first freeze last night, but so far the snow is only at higher elevations. We used to have a cat that would follow us on our walks – to a point. Enjoy the sauna! I miss my hot tub sometimes.
I miss the high prairies of eastern Colorado. Right now I live in the Tennessee mountains where the vegetation takes over almost all of the would-be beautiful scenes that could be here.
My instincts say I couldn’t love prairie (where are the mountains and hills?). But your photos and writing say I could.
Better you than me, but Maddie is going to be jealous of Scooter.
I think Maddie would like to run off the leash for a couple of miles – but we will keep it our secret. 🙂
I’d be worried about the cucumbers eating her.
I’m sitting here wondering how much work I can get done this morning before our first real front hits. It’s currently 82 degrees here on the coast, and 29 degrees in Amarillo. Somewhere between here and there, your northern air is on the move. The good? Lower AC bills. The bad? Higher heating bills. I still resent that we mostly get cold without snow. If we’re going to suffer in freezing temperatures, we at least ought to get snow.
When I tell my friends from the south that I walk every day regardless of weather, they ask how it is possible to be out and about at -30ºF. The thing is, I have been out and about when it is 30ºF (above) on the coasts of Texas and frankly, I would rather deal with a dry 30 below than a humid thirty above.
I recall spending some time in The Big Bend National Park and being able to drive uphill to snow and downhill to warmer climes, I liked that a lot. 🙂
Oh, yes. When we get an east wind blowing in across the bay in winter, and it’s laden with that moisture, it’s absolutely gruesome. A nice, strong Canadian front? Perfect. For one thing, with no humidity the stars and the lights around the bay are gorgeous.
An idyllic setting! Lots of snow north and west of here, whew. A little reprieve. It is coming . . .
Winter is coming. I wish we could avoid it this year, but my wife is still working and she would die of jealousy if Scooter and I took off for the beach. We might die of something else when we returned.
Stil 80 degrees here. I don’t want your winter, but we could use a little autumn.
We could use some 80º heat and a bit of wind to dry the fields out. We had a big tractor stuck on Saturday. The tractor had treads, not wheels. Think about what that takes to get stuck and think about what it takes to get it unstuck. 🙂
Nice set of photos – I feel I now have a much better feel of your home patch. It’s still relatively warm here in UK, but I suspect it won’t be too long before we get some of the same weather.
I always thought that England and Ireland were relatively warm – then I dove into the Atlantic and got an instant idea of the average temperature. Uff-da!
Oh dear – and I’ve just planted my tomatoes and cucumbers (not the wild variety!)
Picked up 2 – 3 inches here in Northern Colorado last night. Still, winters here are far milder than in western Michigan, where the lake effect snow is brutal, and the gray skies linger for months.
From what I have seen of Colorado winters, you get a foot of snow in two hours…and it is gone in two days. I have spent a bit of time around Holland Michigan in the winter. Long enough to see the sun once. 🙂
We lived just outside Grand Rapids, only a handful of miles from Holland. As a person with Seasonal Affective Disorder, winters were torture. Here, as you say, what snow we get melts off quickly…a typical winter day is sunny and 50 degrees. I’m a whole nother person.
Oh no! So soon.
Hopefully it is just a preview.
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My daughter sent me a photo of the snow on her deck in Minneapolis. Looks pretty but glad it’s tgete and not here!
So they got it up there too? Sometimes the storms track I-90 off the prairie. Even though we are 100 miles south of the cities, we have gotten smacked by blizzards while they saw nary a flake.
Can think of nothing nicer than a long walk with friends, finishing with unpeeling clothes and muddy boots to have a sauna.
Each season has it’s blessings.
Except of course that wild cucumber and mozzies!
I worry about the friends sometimes. We have six barn cats and some days, I have an entourage following me. They will follow me for a mile or two before turning back – but this is coyote and pickup truck country, yet we haven’t lost one.
Hi. How many inches of snow do you get on average in winter?
About 3 ft or a meter
Skunk the cat is adorable. I guess I am surprised he keeps up for that long.
This sounds so nice.
Does this bring the mosquitos under control?
So great to be out walking in the falling snow. And now, just shy of 6 pm, it’s gone and ghosted to puddles and blackened dirt!
what a beautiful walk! no snow here yet, but finally got to turn the AC off two days ago – and now actually need to furnace on! lol!
What a nice walk. I love that milk house. We once stayed at a place in Canada that had a sauna stove. After you would swing on a rope and drop into ice cold water. Refreshing.
Yikes!
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Ah, the flatlands of the midwest. I spent the vast majority of my married life there. It has its own beauty just like the mountains or the shore. But, you can darn well keep that snow right there with you. I’m not ready, but I don’t think Mother Nature cares. It was 32° this morning at 5:30 when I put the coffee on. 🙂
I love the prairie – but am loving winter less and less. Minnesotans of a certain age remember the great Halloween blizzard of 1991. I hope we are not headed there.
I won’t talk about your 1991 storm if you don’t talk about ours in 2011, and we’ll both hope we get well into November until we have to break out the shovels. 🙂