MIDDLEBURGH — It was a lot nicer to drive over to the Middleburgh Diner in the early morning daylight this week.

DUANESBURG — As we pulled into the parking lot of the Chuck Wagon Diner on Tuesday, Oct. 29, the sun was nowhere to be seen. Daylight Saving Time ends on Nov.

DELANSON — Ahhhh, Indian Summer: A short, wonderful period of warmer-than-normal, dry, weather that usually occurs after the first frost or freeze.

MIDDLEBURGH — It does feel more normal to be writing the OMOTM column on Tuesday rather than Friday afternoon.

As I sit down to write this week’s OMOTM column, I must tell you about a few things going on with your scribe this week. Not the least of which concerns my computer. I was hacked again.

DUANESBURG — This Tuesday, Sept. 25, we gathered at Chris’s Chuck Wagon Diner in Duanesburg.

DELANSON — In spite of the fantastic run of great weather we all have been enjoying lately, there are signs that are hard to miss about what time of the year this is.

MIDDLEBURGH — It’s after Labor Day, and the early morning temperature is in the 50s, the lake water is much warmer than the air, fog lays in the valleys, some leaves are falling.

MIDDLEBURGH — The Middleburgh Diner was the meeting spot for this week’s edition of the OMOTM breakfast.

DELANSON — Tuesday morning, Aug. 13, had the feel of a little coolness in the air, plus the fact that the thermometer on the porch was reading less than 60 degrees.