I've already made a few pots of soup this fall-I could live off the different soups all winter! I sent my leftover ham bone from Thanksgiving back with my daughter so she could make bean soup-she likes soup as much as I do! So now I have an excuse to make some more ham to get a bone for me. I am in North Dakota, and we have had some warmer days too-in fact we are getting rain this morning-in December, of all things! Our sunrise was a brilliant bright red this morning, so I think we are going to have a windy day..."red sky at night....."as the old saying goes.