kmkat and her kneedles

Winter is coming.

I was ready for cool weather -- layer on the warmth, snuggle up, hot drinks, etc. -- but I was not quite ready for snow yet. Happily, it mostly melted right away. 

Winter is coming.

The dark comes an hour earlier -- boo! hiss! -- but there is light peeking around the shade when I wake up in the morning.

Winter is coming.

The election is over, the results are in, sadness all around. Our efforts increased voter turnout in our county by nearly 10% -- yay! -- but not enough to swing the state and local elections.

Winter is coming.

Now we must gather the political signs from the roadsides and the hay fields and stow them safely in a barn somewhere.

Winter is coming.

In more ways than cold and darkness. 

Imma share some pictures with you.

PSA: Here is the pattern for those thrummed slippers in yesterday's knitting links post.

Now. The pictures.

Polk County Dems represent at the side of Hwy 8 near St Croix Falls. GOTV!

 

LIttle Free Library on the front of our favorite diner in the next town down the road.
There are three, count 'em, THREE! LFLs my tiny village of 900 souls.

 

Observed at the county treasurer's office when I paid the second half of the property taxes. That Remington is almost identical to the Smith-Corona I took to college.

 

A window in the stairwell of the county museum. Polk County
is roughly the same shape as the state of Minnesota but in reverse.
 

 

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I have nothing else to do so I think I'll do NaBloPoMo.

photo credit: the new world via photopin cc

Ha. Today's post is brought to you by leafleting and door knocking, which is what I am doing.

No, that's a lie. I will be sitting in the mobile office with my knitting and perhaps a hot beverage as others do the leafleting and door knocking using the maps and voter lists that I created, printed, and organized.

We do what we can. I can't walk more than a block, but I can organize and download and print and cheer from the sidelines. And tweet. And blog.