Record Breaking Warmth Followed by Big October Storm

(Posting this today, November 19 from a draft I wrote near the end of October.)

In late October here up North we had record-breaking high temperatures that felt like summertime. My bf and I were socially distancing, but with friends. First we were over at their place at the gazebo looking over the big beautiful lake. First it was very sunny, and then it began to rain then pour and it was so beautiful to watch the rain from the gazebo--a small flock of geese flew in and landed right before us and then took off again, then another flock of geese flew by after the rain, from NE to SW. Then a bunch of fiery colored leaves fell from a nearby tree like raining leaves, and then a faint rainbow appeared over the lake. Then it rained some more, briefly, and when it stopped again the rainbow was back and its delicate light reflected back at us upon the water almost as if to reach out to us to touch us all. Then we ordered dinner which we ate at Mill Hollow, then played frisbee for a while in the record breaking warm temperature. We stayed at the park until dark, and on the way home the storm broke out with a huge storm and 60 mph winds with almost zero visibility on the old country roads. My bf drove very very slow. By the time we got home, the rain was just a light drizzle.

I slept off and on the throughout the next day from all the weather's barometric pressure change. I am one of the lake creatures here that happens to be affected by the weather and the life of the barometer! More precisely, I slept off and on for two days--the pressure and temp changes really zapped me in a big way--like the geese, when it got cold again, my body needed to fly south, but since it couldn't, it wanted to hibernate.

I am over it now--got up early Sunday morning (today) and folded and put away laundry right away while having my morning coffee. Life on the lake and the Lake Erie wetlands has returned to normal--for me, anyway. Autumn came back and already I am writing less--but I did go out and buy some liquid gel sunshine (vitamin D).

Even if this does not seem very eventful to most my readers, and I would understand that perfectly, I wrote this into my blog to post it here to remember it in the midst of all this. It is just one of those days at the lake like so many other days when auturmn comes.