Dear Mother Nature,

Is it too much to ask you what you are doing?

One day, it's a pleasant and rather seasonaly appropriate low of 42. Nice and brisk, with cool air. Just enough to make you wear a jacket. The next day, it is 78, and raining. Now, don't get me wrong, we need the rain. We seem to be...what, 24 inches under for the year? So rain is a good thing, and we'd all appreciate a nice wet winter. But how about a nice cold one as well? I mean, it's almost November, and I got bitten by a mosquito this morning. At seven a.m. when I let the dogs out. Whatever happened to having a frost in Ocotober? Shoot, it's almost my birthday, and I have a closet full of lovely frumpy llbean sweaters to wear, and it hasn't even been CLOSE to being cold enough.

So please, Madam Mother Nature, how about a little rain, a little chill...

And while I'm at it, how's about a white Christmas?

Yours Truly,

Dear Liza