Snow shovels, take your places. ***********

The temperature here in Columbia County will not be out of the 30's during the day this week and the nights will be down in the teens!!!! Snow flakes will fall occasionally, while the ponds will have the first sheet of ice on them in the mornings. A sudden snow squall is not out of the question. The bird feeders should be filled on a steady routine now. Once you start them you need to continue. The birds count on you and don't know where to look if they are depending on you to eat during the winter. Most of the corn has been reaped from the fields. Two large trucks went by the house today filled to the brim, on their way to the farm. Kinderhook will  host the Historical House Tour that night of December 12. Come and enjoy the horse drawn wagons and take a peek in all the retail stores. OK Package Store will have a wine tasting and look for the ice sculpture on Broad Street. Enjoy Christmas cookies at Lindowens American Country and all her new primitive folk art furniture, candles, dolls and decorations. Make sure to stop at Michael Devine's Home shop for beautiful Christmas gifts. Just a short trip from Kinderhook, Pamela Dalton will host her 19th annual Holiday Open House on December 13th in Harlemville in the middle of the Rudolph Steiner School. She has a lovely little house, just like her, full of scherenschnitte, tinware, Santa's and sundries. It will be open from 10 to 4 pm. We listed a clean 1960's ranch today, 3 bedrooms with hardwood, loads of closets and storage, Lovely entrance with slate, Nice kitchen with lots of light and formal dinning room and a living room with mirrored wall. On more than an acre, in a good school district , and room for your antique cars. I am going to find the snow shovel just in case I need it soon, put more wood on the porch and make sure the new beaujolais is in the wine closet.