9 Hours Daylight & Full Wolf Moon

We've hit 9 hours and 0 minutes daylight today. It's also the full moon. The full moon in January is also known as the Full Wolf Moon. According to the Farmer's Almanac:

"Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January's full moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule."

Happy New Year!

We actually woke up to some snow this morning.

Brown Christmas

Turned out we officially had a brown Christmas this year. It's our first since 2006. Photo taken in front of a neighborhood Lutheran church.

New Year's Eve

We were supposed to have a high of 40 today. As you can see in the picture there is still no snow on the ground. Pretty odd for New Year's Eve.

The Day After Christmas

50 degrees today. Yikes. It was beautiful but this is kind of scary for December. We're actually beginning to increase in daylight. 8 hours and 48 minutes today. With it being so warm I decided to drain the hose which is something I meant to do last month.

Christmas Morning

Today is a very sunny and brown Christmas. Total daylight is still 8 hours and 47 minutes.

Daylight

I checked the newspaper and it looks like we've got 8 hours and 47 minutes of daylight for both yesterday and today. The photo shows the evening sky looking west from the side of our house.