Welcome, to the twelfth month.

(And on a related note, have you ever noticed how difficult it is to say and spell “twelfth” when you think about it too much? I’m here to ask the tough questions.)

In other news, Colorado welcomed December today with a good dose of the cold, wet, frozen water from above. It seems my coworker’s daily word desk calendar was in on this plan as showcased in that photo up there. What are the odds? If I was a mathematician, I’d be clever and tell you exactly what the odds are, but alas, I am not.

Fun fact (care of the same little, daily desk calendar):

“Researchers know when “blizzard” first appeared in print, but no one knows for sure how or where the word originated. Frontiersman Davy Crockett used it to refer to a sudden blast of bullets (and later an analogously furious burst of words) back in the 1830s, but his writings gave no clue about where he learned the word (or whether he coined it). The first time “blizzard” was used to refer to a large snowstorm was on April 23, 1870, in a newspaper in the town of Estherville, Iowa. “Blizzard” gained national attention after a huge snowstorm hit the east coast of North America in March of 1888, and big, snowy winter storms have been blizzards ever since.”

And there you have it.

December 1st, blizzards, desk calendars, Davy Crockett, Iowa, and a little etymology lesson.

All in a day’s work.