Stratford is a little north of the Banana Belt, Dorothy — we’re in the Peach Belt.

We get Lake Effect weather here: storm cells and squall lines that drift or blow across Lake Huron and Lake Erie. If a system rolls up Tornado Alley from the mid-western states, it can bring almost anything. Last week, Facebook dredged up a post I made in October 2018 with a photo of our deck covered with some five centimetres of hail and more coming down. Temporary snow before Hallowe’en is quite normal, and Remembrance Day is reliably cold and bitter.

Today, we’re having Indian Summer: bright blue sky, high of 22°C, no wind. And here I am in the house with the cats and the ‘Cat!