It has begun.

Regular nighttime temps in the 20s now, snow on the mountain ( see www.jacksonhole.com mountain cam for the top of Rendezvous Mt.) and slush predicted in the valley today. Every year we attempt to stall off the end of our flowers by covering them at night. Every year we do this for about 5 days and then give up.
Yesterday as Tom is adjusting the covering on one end of a long role of white garden cloth, the squirrel is pulling it down from the other. What man attempts to join together, a squirrel will surely tear asunder.