I watched the blue norther blow in this afternoon from my backyard in Austin. Warm, balmy, short-sleeve weather and I'm out racking leaves, playing with the dog about 2 o'clock. Then by 2:15, the steel blue sky to the north started blowing, and every once in awhile I actually felt a chilly wind on my arm. It was an odd mix of winds: chilly and not chilly. By 2:45 when I picked up the grandson at school across the street, it was heavy coat weather, chilly, windy, cold. Austin will totally shut down tomorrow if we actually have sleet, ice, freezy stuff -- we don't know how to drive in it so we have to play in it. By the way, I'm always on the lookout for more information -- and ways to share my information -- about my great-great grandparents Alex and Anna Catharine "Katie" Smith Harris. He came with his parents J.J. and Susannah before 1860, she came with her father from Mississippi in the 1870s. Any connects out there? Their daughter Ada Harris married William H. Ross, pastor at Round Rock Baptist church at the turn of the century (my great grandparents). Suzy