november 16.

We woke to the faintest dusting of snow on the roof and a morning of freezing drizzle. It's the perfect day to stay indoors, make some soup (Lively Up Yourself Lentil Soup) for this week's lunches and watch football. Hardy Bengals fans next door got an 8 a.m. start heading for tailgating downtown; they were bundled up against the cold, but probably not against another loss. The flowering crabapple has nothing but the little red apples on its branches; the weeping cherry has wept its yellow leaves all over the yard. The lawn needs raking today, but the weather says, "Stay indoors, you."