We may not be cool, but the weather is

I've been sleeping better the past few weeks except for this morning. When it was 4:50 a.m. (GMT+2) I chose to get up instead of just tossing and turning in bed. The snowfall that started yesterday managed to stay on the ground during the night, which meant that I woke up to an albeit thinly snow-covered Stockholm today. Considering we're 2/3 into November, I can't complain.

My hope is that the thin layer of snow melts away while the cold persists and creeps far into the ground so that a deep frost forms in the ground. This would reduce the number of ticks. In recent years, the snow has come early and laid like a lid on the ground and acted as a blanket, which meant that the frost did not form properly and the ticks could survive the winter.

The reason I woke up so early today is because the world's most perfect husband was snoring, something he does if we've been to a party or if he's very tired. It would have been much cooler if we had been out partying yesterday but the sad truth is that we are really tired from all the physical work of emptying the storage.

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