[JL8Jeff]

Last year we waited months for the rain to stop so that kind of threw off the timing. This year it got hot and dry for too long so you couldn't wait for it to cool down a little and by then it was Sept. The long term forecast for this winter is for it to be colder than normal Nov through early Jan and then it gets milder and is warmer than normal for the later part of the winter. That doesn't sound too bad since snow doesn't stick quite as bad in Dec with the ground still being somewhat warm. I used to keep the car in the garage every night so scraping frost wasn't an issue. Now the truck stays outside so I need to get used to the scraping routine.