You know you're in Wisconsin when the weather has mood swings. For instance, this week we had our first snow flurries and it has been nice and chilly--somewhere around 30/40 degrees. I was just checking the weather forecast and noticed that it's supposed to be 60 or so at the end of this week. Weird. I thought we were progressing into winter, but I guess this state just wanted to tease us. That's how the cold started: it was a wonderful 70 degrees or so, then the day before October the weather suddenly thought, "oh no! It's fall! I have to be cold!" And wham---it was suddenly cold overnight. Of course, last year (with our 110+ inches of snow), we did have one day where the temperature jumped from the negatives to the 70s which caused a killer twister to rip through the area a few towns south of here, so I guess it could be worse. As our local weatherman says, "If you don't like the weather in Wisconsin, wait a few minutes." He isn't kidding.
Just a side note: The days are really short now: the sun comes up fully around 7am and it's dark somewhere around 6pm. Soon we will enter the world where I go to work in the dark and I come home in the dark and wonder if the sun really even exists anymore (that's what you get for working in a cube).
