This looks like real winter, but in fact the temperature was in the high sixties when I rolled into Eldorado this evening. I'm here on a very, very, very flying visit to check that all's ok with the house, which it is, in basic terms (by which I mean: no mouse invasion, nothing dead in the walls, and so on). I'm not at all sure the heating's working, but there are ways round that. However - there have obviously been some crazy strong winds - various things outside have flown in all directions, and there's a large tumbleweed nest by the front door. The one real casualty outside seems to have been the two big locust trees in the back yard - let's hope they can make it. I'd heard that trees had been caught by a super-heavy frost a few days ago, and almost all the young leaves seem completely withered with cold. But if I'm lamenting what happened here, the real damage has been done to fruit trees, here and further north. It went down to 19 in Dixon, 17 in Española - and that's a lot of people's livelihoods.
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