The November Outlook     November's average temperatures fall one degree every 50 hours, finding the middle 30s by the end of the month. Normal highs slip down to 44 and lows dip to 29 by December 1st. With averages plummeting a total of 14 degrees, around 15 mornings below freezing occur in the next 30 days.

     All this almanacking began in 1972 with the gift of a barometer.  My wife gave the instrument to me when I was succumbing to graduate school stress in Knoxville, Tennessee, and it became not only an escape from intense academic work, but the first step on the road to a different kind of awareness about the world.