On the normally frozen tundra of upstate NY - fair skies and closing in on 70* right now ----- but with Sandy coming to visit in a couple days, probably wont have very good weather next week with many inches of rain already predicted .

"Experts said the storm could be wider and stronger than Irene, which caused more than $15 billion in damage, and could rival the worst East Coast storm on record."

Now, back to 'shoveling' out the leaves from the fifteen 100' oaks in the back yard - they dumped their leaves about a month early this year