Winter is Coming

We’ve enjoyed a long season of warm autumn days and beautiful fall colors in Montana this year. Image by Susan Foster, the author

We have had a spectacular, unusually long autumn in Montana. It is about to come to an abrupt end, as this weekend is rainy, temperatures are plummeting, and precipitation will likely turn to snow by this afternoon or evening.

Thanks to the weather app on my phone, I realized our fall season was nearing an end and I began winterizing this past week. I reviewed one of my old blog posts about chores that should be completed before…