It is beautiful here in SE Ohio today. Supposed to be in the 60's. I saw out in Colorado it is snowing! Does anyone live near there? I couldn't imagine having snow already!!

-- Melissa (cmnorris@1st.net), November 23, 2001

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It's supposed to snow here in Alberta today. We've been lucky so far - we only had one snowfall and it stayed for a day and was gone -- that was before Halloween.

I'm not fond of the snow. So far as I'm concerned, it could come Christmas Eve and go away Boxing Day and I'd be perfectly happy. Unfortunately, living so close the mountains, one can be drawn and quartered for such heresy! You can tell the skiers from the non skiers because the skiers spend most of November peering out windows at the sky!

-- Tracy (trimmer31@hotmail.com), November 23, 2001.

Oh, Melissa, we just moved to Colorado in May. We had, believe it or not, snow on June 13, and again the first week of September!! It has been a very nice, temperate fall, but we were surpirsed to find snow on the ground this morning(and a little displeased, since we didn't finish putting up the hay--didn't expect snow before tomorrow--and I left all the boots out on the deck. sob.)

-- mary (marylgarcia@aol.com), November 23, 2001.

Tracy: Most people don't know when boxing day is and you will probably have them confused..Having lived in England for three years I know that boxing day is the day after Christmas ...Right?

-- Robert Smith (snuffy@1st.net), November 23, 2001.

AUNTIE EM, AUNTIE EM,,,,,,,It is blowing up a storm here,(literally). It is getting colder and rain is expected by nightfall.All the birdhouses,rugs, and half the chickens are in the back 40!!OH No, got to go catch my son, he just got blown by the window!God Bless

-- Micheale from SE Kansas (mbfrye@totelcsi.net), November 23, 2001.

Yes, Robert, Boxing Day is December 26 -- and is celebrated as a statutory holiday here in Canada.

Yes, sorry to all the Americans on here -- I sometimes forget that we don't have all the same holidays! Boxing Day, is, in fact, the day after Christmas. History tells us that in England in the homes of the nobility, the servants, of course, worked from dawn to dusk on Christmas Day. Apparently, the day after Christmas was often (not always) given off to the servants, and in many noble houses, the leftovers from the Christmas feast were "boxed" and sent home with them. Thus, December 26th became known as "Boxing Day". We have this day off as well as Christmas Day (although most stores are open) here in Canada.

-- Tracy (trimmer31@hotmail.com), November 23, 2001.

This has been a really nice, mild fall. We are so glad, as last year we had a major snowstorm for Thanksgiving (flurries for the Canadian Thanksgiving in October, and a full-fledged storm while traveling to PA for US Thanksgiving in Nov.). This has been really nice on the heating bill:o) I hope we don't have as hard a winter as last year.

-- Cathy N. (keeper8@attcanada.ca), November 23, 2001.