No, not yet!! as I reach over and smack my alarm clock.I do not want to move any more than I have to, Sleep calls,  five hours of sleep is not enough my brain screams. I want to sleep a little more, my coccoon of blankets softly hum to me a lullaby.But I resist, slowly stretch out of my fetal position to laying on my stomach, I try to touch the foot of the bed but as always my feet don't touch. Catherdal bells start softly ringing,I try to ignore them but they get louder and louder.I smack the alarm clock again and look at the time brightly shining in red bold numbers 5:35 in the dark. One more time , I say to myself,I have to get up the next time the clock goes off.  But it never seems to be enough time to get some more shut eye in yet I always try.
As I lay there, I hear the catherdal bells again. Ok, ok you stupid clock I am getting up as slid the switch to off.I sit up and slide my feet into my slippers the floor by the bed. I grab the blanket off my bed still warm from my bed. My room is cold, but it is fall. Halloween was only a few days ago.
I open my bedroom door and I get hit with a rush of cold air.I walk by the dryer and turn it on, I left a load of wet clothes in it last night so I could warm the house up this morning.As I walk down the hall so I can turn on the coffee pot and the air keeps getting colder.Hmm the wood stove must of gone out. Better check the fire.
 As I walk into the living room, I am greeted by our dog ,Gretchen,who usually is laying in the recliner, but not this morning.Gretchen is bouncing around all covered in white, she runs toward me and sticks her muzzle against my warm legs.Her nose is cold and she is all wet.She is all covered in snow. I look at the front door standing wide open, So Gretchen,when are you going to learn to close the door behind you, you can open it but not close it?? I ask the dog as I shut the door.She just bounces with joy as I talk to her.
 I trek into the kitchen and nearly slip on a puddle of water that Gretchen had left sometime in the night.I turn on the coffee pot and pull the towel off the towel rack to clean up the water. Gretchen is watching me with a big smile on her face. I go back into the living room check the fire. It was down to coals but salvagable, soon I had a fire blazing in the stove and the house  warmng up.
I got a cup of coffee and sit to look out the window. It is starting to get lighter outside and snow gently falls from the sky covering the bare trees that have lost their summer coats, and the bare ground where the grass had started to die off.Except for the trails where Gretchen had been playing in the snow, everything is covered in a blanket of snow.
 The world looks so peaceful, pure and calm.But now I have to get ready for my day in the busy fast pace schedule of my day.