FIFTEEN PERCENT OF THE LOCAL CORN CROP HAS BEEN HARVESTED.

There's some of that crop still in the field across the mile road.  Here's yesterday's snow coming down.

The two snowiest Hallowe'ens in the neighborhood have occured in the instant decade, with Rockford recording 0.1" of snow in 2014 and over four inches yesterday.

There were still maybe twenty to forty kids braving the elements, as the snow quit after 4 pm and the sun came out for the early kids until sunset.  My impression was that a lot of the kids had immigrant parents, if that's giving the kids an opportunity to experience one of our traditions, it's a good thing.

Reason's Nick Gillespie has a point.  Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night nor process-worshipping bureaucrats should deprive kids of their opportunity to scoop up all sorts of sweet treats and trade them (for mutual gain) with their neighbors.

It's an object lesson that traditional, compulsory K-12 education persists mostly to remind kids that authority is brutal, stupid, and arbitrary, and to provide source material for the next iteration of Pink Floyd's The Wall, To Sir, With Love, Alice Cooper's "School's Out," Heathers, Mean Girls, or the next great youth-in-revolt statement. Indeed, the only good reason I can think of to oppose choice and letting parents and kids sort themselves into schools they really like is the negative effect it would have on future music, movies, novels, TV shows, and other forms of popular culture.

Meanwhile, the seasonal Music Choice channel went from it's Hallowe'en programming to its Christmas programming overnight, and one of the local groceries was replacing the remaing snack and fun size candy packages with their Christmas treats.  Here's your opportunity to dream of a white Christmas.

The chances are most of this will melt away or be washed away over the next few days.  Enjoy.