Kay

very pretty pumpkins A+

banded (light rain)

34

CWG mentioned/linked this today: https://www.space.com/34373-orionid-meteor-shower-guide.html "The Orionid meteor shower will peak between Oct. 21 and Oct. 22 and will remain active until early November. Viewing conditions for the Orionids are favorable this year with relatively little moonlight getting in the way of spotting the streaking meteors. Sometimes the Orionid meteor shower produces spectacular displays of up to 80 meteors an hour, but in recent years it has produced more modest displays of about 20 or 30 visible meteors per hour. The Orionid meteor shower is produced when Earth passes through the debris or ice and dust left behind from Comet 1P/Halley, more commonly known as Halley's Comet."

low 33, some frost on cars

36

Neighb smells like wood smoke tonight, everybody is like Bring It

Yes. No "muted" deal this year. It's really nice.

The WTI (winter thread index) is strongly positive, which usually indicates mid-Atlantic weenies are READY TO TRACK, even the remotest possibility of snow. I know I am.

reality bites

Haha, well clearly you are her hero I was not without fear but a) I've relocated smaller sneks, and b) seen others relocate these and survive lol. He/she was a whopper though. Weirdest part was, at first I was like, huh why is the weatherstripping at the bottom of the door all flattened out and wavy like that, what could have happened to it OOOOOHHHHHHH. Still MIA, btw. Hopefully outside

Large black rat snake in the house...was lying along the front door...in the approx one minute it took to find some gloves and a broom and begin to steel myself, it totally disappeared. I don't mind them generally, and eating rodents is a plus, but now it's...somewhere.

low of 35

MOON

Low of 44

Had a gig in York, PA yesterday and they were everywhere. Landing on you randomly. I haven't seen any here so far. The smoke made for a dark and eerie sunset on Friday #oldobs

Dumping rain now in the cell moving up the bay.

I am finally making headway with Raccoons Who Love To Dig Up Containers. So PSA, they do not seem to like salvia! They don't touch three big containers of it AND I found they stopped &%(-ing with other flower containers after salvia was added. YMMV, I'm talking about this one: https://parkseed.com/summer-jewel-red-salvia-seeds/p/51689-PK-P1/ Grew it from seed a few years ago but it keeps reseeding itself so there is a steady supply. Also does all right indoors for winter. Hummingbirds are crazy about it.

Per iweathernet estimate 2.66" imby last 24 hours. Deluged this morning.

still and quiet here as storms slide by to the east

Richmond: BURIED Battlezone SAFELY south

yeah marginal days are a whole discussion and ways to cut down, that's valid, I just...to me it would be such a bummer if virtual learning sucked all the fun out of (let's say legit) snow days, like we enjoyed.

these hail reports are interesting...and I'm annoyed, I was distracted by work stuff during the storm and did not manage to visually check out what I assumed were large, loud drops

Nice thundershower earlier. Came down heavy, picked up an inch. Couple decent house-shakers.

lots of dimensions to this whole discussion but just gonna weigh in on one thing: converting snow days to virtual learning days is sad