Nor'easter II

Here in Philadelphia the prevailing winds are out of the west and don't affect me much in my third-floor home office. But I have two good-sized windows in my 11 x 10 office -- one faces north and one faces east-northeast. When a nor'easter comes roaring down from wherever nor'easters come from, the wind moans and shakes the panes of the old windows in their sashes and bullies its way through the cracks.

This is the second nor'easter I've noticed since the weather cooled, and I am suspecting that this is a portent of a cold wet winter. The last one dropped three inches of rain, which would have been 30" of snow. I wonder how this one will be -- my informal rain gauge isn't out there.

I am glad to be indoors today, wearing several layers of clothing and a lap robe and eating hot soup for lunch. Tomorrow is supposed to be the rainiest and windiest day, though, and I must venture forth.