winter

it's snowing, just a little bit, at the job site. when i'm sawing wood, i can't tell if it's sawdust or snowflakes that are blowing all around everywhere. it's freezing cold. i'm wearing seven layers (count them - long underwear, t-shirt, plaid cotton, plaid flannel, wooly sweater, plaid lined jacket, windbreaker) but it's so windy and so freeking damp that you just feel chilled all the time.

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noisy day. steve is running the circular saw; t is whamming at the nail gun; there's a dirt bike flying by on the road; dogs somewhere are barking. the truck radio is running christmas tunes (it's not really christmas until you sing along to the christmas shoes!) and that makes it totally ok that... it's just started to rain.

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there's a thick frost on everything this morning. it's 23 degrees (eight layer day) but it's a bright blue sky and very sharp cold - not the awful lingering damp that seeps into your gloves and socks. everything is glittering. i want to shake all the trees on the hills because i think that they'd tinkle like bells. even when the sun hits everything, it melts really slowly. when it does start to melt, you can hear the water start to move everywhere, little trickles at a time. we have the studs up for the walls of our new house, and the sun is melting the frost in stripes across the floor.

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christmas is coming!