#lateautumn

This is a very old chipmunk hole under the clothesline by the woodshed. It’s been there for at least a decade, I think. Friday someone decided it was time for a house cleaning. Saturday was a gloomy day

I’m not sure what’s up with the lights, but the bubble lights, which were all lit on the old tree, had 8 lights out when I went to put them back up. And 2 sockets on one string were not working at all.

For the last 3 decades, I have fixed completely all the old light strings I had for the Christmas trees. I’ve very seldom had one I couldn’t fix. I had no choice, I couldn’t afford new ones. All the strings

On Wednesday morning I started at 5AM taking everything off the old Christmas tree. I set it out all around the living room, as I will be putting it back on the artificial tree. It took me about 2 hours

At noontime the carpenter found a box on the porch when he was leaving. It was from my brother. I thought he’d sent presents. But nope! A couple years ago I mentioned how I can’t grow holly here. He has

On Monday morning I decided to fill the suet feeders. I went down to the freezer where we’d kept the suet and discovered we only have 4 packages left from our last cow, years back. When I went out to hang

On Sunday it was sunny and I kept an eye on the feeders. The closest one had been spun off its squirrel baffle by the high wind in the night. I had to go out and put it back together. I haven’t seen any

On Saturday morning the rain hadn’t quite set in when my helper friend arrived with the birdseed. I went right out and got the storage buckets and then the feeders. By the time I got them filled, it was

My helper friend was here on Friday morning and we decided to hang the birdfeeders he’d washed up a couple weeks ago. When I had to take down all the trees on the east side of the house, I lost my birdfeeder

Ok, so I went a little crazy over our first snow. But it was so pretty, even before the sun was up. The first snow is always pretty; it’s the ones afterwards that aren’t appreciated. Before sunrise when

On Thursday morning my first job, before the carpenter got here at 7AM, was to sort through all the videos in these storage boxes to see what I wanted to keep. (The 3 boxes are keepers, 1 box to go out.)

On Tuesday morning I got all the Christmas cards written and ready to mail. When the carpenter came we set about trying to get the thresholds down. When he didn’t need me, I was trying to wash up carrots

On Monday mid morning the repair place called and the truck was finally done. It had stopped raining so the carpenter’s helper took me down to get the truck. After paying the hefty bill and being told