Just in time

I'm not sure how one smells it in the air or feels it in the bones, but, there it was, that feeling: Snow coming. Big snow coming.

I was pushing hard to get the windows in. Windows that, by rights, I shouldn't have been trying to lift solo, let alone hoist up a 30 ft tower and then out on a cat walk and heft and nail into place. But, there was that feeling about the snow, so seven four ft. by five ft. thermopane windows in custom, just-made casings got lifted up the tower by block and tackle. After squaring them and making certain of plumb, I nailed them off with wedges and 10 penny galvanized finish nails.

Three hours later the snow began. Overnight we got 14" and the tempature dropped to single digits. Autumn is over and Winter has begun.