First cold of the fall

It’s going to be cold tonight.

Now it’s certainly not going to be really cold.  If usual relationships between forecast lows and local measurements hold, we might see 40 ºF at our house.  That’s not even cover-your-plants cold, much less freeze-your-littler-extremities-off cold.

But it’s cold enough for a jacket, and it’s cold enough for a hat too, if the wind’s blowing.  (I don’t think it’s s’posed to much tonight.)  It’s also cold enough for a pot of chili, which has been simmering for a couple of hours now.

I’ve said several times before that I’m living about as far north as I ever want to.  I’ve traveled on business to places where they have real, severe, hardcore winter, and I don’t like it worth a shit.  Keep it.

You know, it wasn’t even a particularly hot summer.  Nevertheless, after the weather breaks for real, I love that close-the-windows nip, that smell of winterish comestibles, that first snifter of Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel (neat), and most of all that snuggle that much closer to my lady.

That Alabama is 7-0 doesn’t hurt either.

Contentedness, thy name is mid-October.

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