january in october

It's snowing in my freezer.

I have never had this happen before. I knew it was pretty cold in there, and I've been fiddling with the temperature controls in the fridge for the past couple of weeks, trying to bring it down to a less Arctic temperature, since everything in the fridge has been freezing and there are enough icicles hanging off the shelves to look like Christmas.

I figured I'd worked it all out. Until I opened the freezer yesterday and was greeted by a snowdrift.

It's not even ice crystals. It's real, honest-to-God SNOW. I packed a pot full of it, freezing my hands in the process, giggling at the thought that if I only had company, I could surprise them with a snowball fight.

But alack and alas, I was the only one home, and the cat would only have been frightened and upset if I'd chucked a chunk of powdered water at him.

So it's winter early in my house.