Slept real good. But got up inappropriately late.

By the time I got outside it was glorious. Up over sixty degrees, and 67 in the house with the drapes flung wide to the sun.

I got to work. Tent work. I was reasonably productive.

The tent poles for the window coverings are finally sorted out. The leftover pieces of the build are put in their special junk pile place. Finally, the ladder is almost there.

I got a scrap of video for it too.

But at four o’clock, with the darkness starting to come down, I was hungry and not in the cook-it-myself way. So I cleaned up and went walking. Less than a mile from the co-op … god I’m going to miss this place.

Tanked up at Javalina on the way back. Now, it’s Dusk. Of a Saturday. A couple of weeks ’til the solstice, when the welcome change to again slowly lengthening daylight wraps around itself.

The first real storm, herald of winter proper, is said to be barreling down upon us, arriving Monday morning and lasting into Tuesday.

So tomorrow the Sunday, I will get up a little earlier. I will finish the ladder, take the Full Glory video, maybe tack the bedliner into place at long last, fold the tent back down and batten all hatches against what lies ahead. Then I’ll prep everything else. I’ll get the food I won’t walk to drive or walk for. I’ll get a couple more bags of stove pellets, and like that.

At the next dusk I will be back in this cottage and ready for the cataclysm.

On Monday early they say the winds will spike first. Then the snow will come down and down all day and into the night, into the Tuesday before tapering off and leaving the world draped in silent crystal.

In some ways I wish the storm would last much longer, many days, and in some ways it will. Temperatures are not going to recover quickly. We crawled into the sixties fahrenheit today, and probably will tomorrow too, but after that it will be quite a while before we see anything that balmy or easy.

I don’t want to go anywhere. I’m home, it is temporary, and I want to cherish home before it goes away forever too soon.

Just like life, come to think.