Being so close to the water, our area usually misses the first couple frosts - we also miss the first few warm days in spring because of the water - gotta pay somewhere.

Gnu, we live just a little too close to Halifax, so every year we get a few city boys who only fire a shotgun once a year and think if they can't see a house from where they are standing in the woods, then they must be deep in the wilderness - they're the ones who end up shooting cows and dogs and the like. Damn townies. (That last is said jokingly, for any sensitive urbanites.)

But today is a brilliant sunny day, and I'm off outside to stack me firewood. Got a beautiful dome almost cpmplete, has two cords in it, and I've another two and a half cords to go.