fall

I love fall

    The crisp nights and brisk days.  The colors of the trees.  The lack of insects.  A final law mowing, or two but the end is in sight.

    Pretty soon there will be snow on the ground and we will be wishing for warmer temperatures.

    But right now it is time to enjoy fall.

    Jackie had her hair done today and afterwards we drove around looking at the various hay bales.  We did not see them all, but we saw several.

    I had an Amazon item to return, and it had to go to a UPS drop off.  I went to Petro, which is where I always go with a UPS package, (except when I went to the post office and they informed me the were the USPS, not UPS).  Drove out there and discovered Petro is no longer a UPS drop off.

    So I went back to close to where Jackie had her haircut and used a drop off box there.    Just seems strange that there are so few drop off boxes in town.

    We got home in time for me to mow the field for the last time.

    As I got near the back, I discovered deer were using one of my sugar maples as a scratching post!  The bark was scarred and damaged.  Last year a deer took out my gingko tree, I assume using that as a scratching post.

    I had some drainage tile  in the garage, left over from when we built the house 13 years ago.  I slipped that around the tree trunks of 2 of the trees, hopefully that will keep the trees safe.

    I had restaked another tree and noticed the metal stakes were pulled up and out of the ground.  I wonder if a deer got caught in the wires.  That seems to be what happened with the gingko.    I restaked  that.

    But it is now past 9 and I did not freeze my carrots yet!  I hope they make it another day.  I don't have many to start with and I would hate to lose those.

    I just keep putting it off.

    Jackie reminded me to start bringing in yard stuff.  I need to do t hat.  I just don't know where to put it all.  My garage is never a neat place.

    Oh well.

Peace and Love

One of the things I miss about our old house is the pair of sugar maples in front.   They were always beautiful every fall.

damn deer

Our sugar maples....small but colorful

I planted these this fall

Julia's friend Matt asked me if there was anything he could bring me from Switzerland.  I told him mountains and a lake.  Well, he brought me smaller versions...Evian water and the candy of the alps.