Nancy got a little fire pit to sit around in the back yard. We fire it up for dessert after one of our rare dinners together.

They’re starting to blow snow at Northstar for the scheduled (conditions permitting) Nov. 18 opening day. Here I am at mid-mountain, getting first tracks.

We’ve had some cold nights, but now it’s warming up again, too warm to make snow.

I joined Mark, Trish and Dave the Wave for another ride of the Flume Trail, this time starting from the Mt. Rose Highway.

Mark and Trish came up from Orange County for a few days of mountain biking, so we joined them for a quick ride on Sawtooth before work.

Nancy rides up the powerline trail before a fun downhill back to the parking lot.

The best thing about riding in cold weather?

TIGHTS!!

Cleaning off a summer’s worth of dust and pollen.

Part of our evening routine, patrolling the NPOA Rec Center.

Very, very quiet this time of year.

We took advantage of the warm days and autumn colors to ride the Flume Trail.

Beautiful day, but very crowded on the trail.

We spent the day in Reno doing errands, then took Ryder down to the creek in the afternoon. The pup was stoked.

We rented a pole saw to cut off a few dead limbs at the Nelson house.

Next time, they’re hiring a tree service. It was sketchy clambering around a steep roof trying to reach some high limbs.

The leaves they are a-changin’.

The nice thing about having a splitter instead of borrowing one is that you can do a little bit at a time, instead of devoting three days to non-stop splitting.

Nancy did a little pruning and cleaning up in our yard, while I split wood.

We spent a few hours at the Nelsons’ house, pruning trees and blowing needles off the roof.

The fall colors seem especially bright this year.

We got some cold nights and not so warm days, so we got the wood stove going.

Yeesh, already?

It’s gotten into the 20s the last few nights, so our tomato plants are done for the season.

We got a pretty good crop, considering we weren’t able to plant until mid-July.

I’m finally feeling good enough to ride to work.

Nancy and I are both on swing shift, so she can come pick me up after work. She’s also been riding to work, and then I come pick her up after my shift.

We got our first blast of winter yesterday and today. Just an inch or two of quickly melting snow around the house, but quite a bit above 7000’.

This weekend is it for the bike park at Northstar. We’re hoping to get out and ride on Sunday; it should warm up enough by then to melt out the trails.

We’ve got some weather coming in, so I’m splitting some wood to fill up the wood bin.

We had a rough weekend—Nancy and I both got the flu and were knocked silly by it.

I have an ongoing project of replacing the nails in the deck with screws as the nails work themselves loose.

Here I am getting the deck ready to seal it.