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Winter is coming!

So far, this fall of 2018 has been dry and cold in our northern town! This morning it was a cold 19 degrees (-7 C) and we've had the temperatures staying around that 20-degree range (-6 C) and getting in the 38 (+3 C) to 41 (+5 C) for the "high". This time last year we had already had about a foot of snow and quite a few days of rain but the temps were in the 30s at night and 40s for the highs. A couple of weeks ago we did have the first snow of the winter of 2018/2019. Only an inch and it has since melted but there will be more snow coming! Maybe tomorrow night as a storm system is pushing through for Thanksgiving day and the weekend. Stacy has been inspired to try to make hard candies for possibly some holiday gifts. On YouTube, she came across the videos from the Hercules Candy Company, a family run company in the New York area where one of the family members began recording and posting videos of how it is done the old fashion ways of primari