October 28, 2008. We have recieved our first snow of the season.
Not kidding.
It was drizzly and eww all day in town, with occasional hail and a smidge of sleet, the ground cold enough to hurt my feet if I jumped or ran on concrete…on the drive home the drizzle started getting whiter and sticking to the windshield in gooier clumps. As we pulled off 28 at the Freeport exit, white flakes spiraled around the headlamps and the lights at the BP gas station. The flakes turned back to gooey rain as we drove through town and the temperature climbed a degree, back to 34 (f), but the farther into the country we continued, the fluffier the sky-water got.
It’s not good snow, mind you. It’s rather soggy and so far it isn’t sticking, and I don’t expect it to tonight. The temperature is below freezing, but barely. The ground is saturated with rain and mild autumn weather.
But still.
Snow.
It’s not even Halloween yet. We may be hiking through drifts to trick-or-treat on Friday. (probably not…but it’s possible) 
Today I finished Nocturnes by John Connolly–a collection of short horror-stories varrying in everything from length to style to time period. Overall, I found the stories enjoyable and appropriate for the time of year, not at all a wast of my time…simply not terribly ground-breaking, spine-chilling or unpredictable. They weren’t bad…a couple of them were mildly intreguing …but none of them exactly had me in thrall. The only time I lingered over a story was when reading ‘The Reflecting Eye’ –a novella based upon a character in Connolly’s other books–simply because I was nearing the end and wanted to finish it and move on to some other, less detective-fiction type stories. Overall…acceptable. Decent immagry. Great word use–definitely not an author on my annual ‘To sent a thesauraus for Christmas’ list. Stories from all different wavelengths of the horror spectrum. I’m just in like, not in love — at the end there was an excerpt from his ‘Book of Lost Things’ that I was very drawn in by and I definitely think this author worth further reading, this just isn’t the BEST collection of short scary stories that I have ever read. Mostly, I suppose I feel that they could have been scarier…they might be very good stories to read in December, however.
