We’re marking another first this morning.

No, not the Eagles coming up flat in a game against an inferior opponent that they were supposed to dominate. We’ve seen that act before. And we no doubt will see it again.

No, I am talking about the unofficial arrival of winter. They had snow in State College over the weekend. And it was snowing yesterday in Boston, as evidenced by the Patriots romping over Tennessee in the snow.

But I refer not to any of these so-called “snow events.’ Instead my own personal version of winter arrived this morning.

I had to scape the windshield. Of course, in order to do that, I had to locate the scraper.

A thick coating of frost greeted me when I got into the car this morning.

I should have expected it, after a thoroughly wet, raw, miserable weekend.

They say the temperatures are expected to rebound close to 70 later this week.

It can’t get here soon enough. And it can’t change the obvious. Winter is coming.

Swell.