IT'S HOT IN CHICAGO............

That is if you live in Fargo, North Dakota where it's 18 below zero ! Thanks to our Canadian friends we are going to be in the deep freeze this week with predictions of -10 on Thursday. And snow, more snow, to add to the mix.

I've been working at the easel and Jojo's been keeping watch on the front since we're both snowbound.

Window on Jojo's World
Acrylic on canvas by yours truly

What Jojo sees from the window
( not counting dogs passing by )

View from the backporch
( Note the garage top garden in the background )

Notice the depth of snow atop the pergola
and my hanging baskets filled with the white stuff

Just one question for Al Gore : " Where's the global warming you've been talking about ? " Please send some up here to us in Chicago.

200 DAYS

Jojo soaks up some late October sun

Chicago's official temperature at O'Hare International Airport registered 32 degrees on Friday, November 2, ending the growing season for this year , one of the four longest since they've been keeping records in 1959.

Our growing season was a month longer than last year. My last act before shutting off my irrigation system was to give the garden one last, long soaking before the snow flies and to pick the last of the green tomatoes for frying up. How lucky we are in Chicago to have ample water. I pray for the poor folks down South who are in the worse drought in history.

Mother nature gave us a nice gentle rain evening before last and we are expecting more today and the first 60 degree temperature for November.