It took longer than usual, but we finally had our first "real" frost last night, and woke up to 21° (-6° C) this morning. In the past couple of weeks we've had some 25° and 28° mornings, but without any white stuff on the ground, so we are officially logging this as the first real one. Usually we get them in the last week of August, or at the latest by the end of the first week in September, so this is definitely late for us. Alayne got these shots while I was over at Widget's House scooping the yards on morning poop patrol. That's blind Austin in the photo above, wondering what happened to the warm summer mornings he's been used to enjoying. You can see the sun had started burning through the light frosty fog we woke up to.
Here's another shot of the fog drifting through the cottonwoods in the distance:
And finally, here's Charlie-the-conehead exploring the front yard this morning:
It's nothing short of a miracle: He finally figured out that if he just raised his head up an inch or two, he wouldn't catch the bottom of the cone on the ground, and could move about at will! That took only about 72 hours of continual "teachable moments" to grasp. But now he zooms around at a very fast clip, still very excited about all the new sights in his world. When Alayne lets him out of Kelly's Cottage in the morning, he literally races out the door to run around exploring. Since he's supposed to be on "quiet time," we have to pull him back inside long before he's ready to go in. But within minutes, he's asleep on a bed in the living room. (In case you don't know, Beagles are binary. On or off. That's it.)
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