The frost is on the mailbox . . .

It's the Satyr's day . . . a cold morning in TulseyTown.

Today is the last Big 12 OU/Texas football confrontation before both teams join the SEC.

Other items in this morning's mailbox . . .

The Afghanistan War offically began on this date in 2001.

It's the 71st birthday of Vladimir Putin. Born on this date in 1952 Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. now St. Petersburg.

Today is the 174th anniversary of James Whitcomb Riley's birth. “The Hoosier Poet”was born in 1849 Greenfield, Indiana. He was the most popular poet in the U.S. at the beginnng of the 20th Century.

When the frost is on the punkin'

They’s something kindo’ harty-like about the atmusfere

When the heat of summer’s over and the coolin’ fall is here—

Of course we miss the flowers, and the blossums on the trees,

And the mumble of the hummin’-birds and buzzin’ of the bees;

But the air’s so appetizin’; and the landscape through the haze

Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days

Is a pictur’ that no painter has the colorin’ to mock—

When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock.

– James Whitcomb Riley