Last night we had our first snow. That is always a fun and welcome time of year, the kids love to play in it, and we love how pretty it makes the neighborhood.

But for some weird reason, the first snow came before the trees lost all their leaves this year. This always makes for a great deal of broken branches, and we have plenty of that in our neighborhood.

In fact, as you can see from this photo, the seasons are so mixed up, the leaves hadn't even changed yet because it's been so mild until today. They're still green! Stupid weather.

We are lucky that none of our fallen branches landed on our house or our car. But that doesn't mean our house has suffered no casualties:

Rescue workers toiled ceaselessly through the morning to pull our dear friend Joe Scarecrow from the wreckage, with no regard to their own danger. In spite of his long ordeal, he appears to have no major injuries, and will return to work as soon as the area is declared safe.