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 So, up here in the mountain Pacific Northwest, it isn't looking like a "white Christmas" this year.  We have had some snow, and it has been cold, but for the last week and until yesterday, it has been "warm" with mid-forties in the daytime and almost 40 at night so, for North Idaho, that's warm! Then yesterday, after a wild night of high winds and heavy rain, it cooled down to 31-degrees and started to snow about 8:30 in the morning and snowed about 3-inches before stopping around 11 am.  I had taken our Chevy down to have our studded snow tires on rims swapped, and it turned out to be at exactly the right time! I went home to unload the summer tires and got this photo during the peak of the snowfall.  While there have been all kinds of astronomical events, like meteor showers, and the "conjunction" in the news, and things we'd love to see, and I'd like to get photos of, the weather has been mostly overcast for weeks! As it had cleared up ...

 Well, as my last post had been about the town chiropractor murder case, I'll start there. The defendant, Daniel Moore, changed his plea to "not guilty," and the case was set to start next March.  It was the talk around the Courthouse that "Dateline" had been "snooping around" looking for info to go with the developing story of this case on the day of the preliminary hearing. Oh, yes, he's decided he wants to open his office back up to get back to making some money. Although, several of his past clients, include Stacy and me, won't be utilizing his services any time soon.  Winter, again! We have had some very cold days so far and a couple of overnight over two-inches snowfalls. However, like winters past it is already going the route of a day after the snow the weather changes direction bringing in warm moist air from the Oregon way instead of the Canadian direction. Like it used to in this part of the region, cold air dropping down from Alaska...