Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday evening. Dang it was cold at times today especially with the stiff breeze that blew most of the day. It made it feel like fall as I raked and hauled my 4 loads of mostly pine needles off the beach. That brings the yearly total to 15 loads. I need a little more than 100 more loads to match last season. I expect the oak leaves to begin falling in great numbers soon, then the leaves will pile up fast. I did not get them all today, I only managed to get about the middle half done. Ran out of day, good excuse anyway, I’ll stick with it.

Helpers

Carol here ~

Vanessa and Jakob came over this past Friday to help with the raking of the beach.  

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday, nice day today. Wind not too bad and the sun was out so not too cold. I worked on the driveway for a while. I am putting a skim coat of finer gravel over most of the driveway now trying to smooth it up a little. I kinda wish I had counted how many times I bounced this on the ground today. 

Ride A-Bout

Carol here ~ 

Everyone is saying that this years' foliage was the best they've seen in a long time so we decided to go for a bit of a ride a-bout on Monday to see for ourselves.  I would have liked to have made the Rangeley loop but my back would not have been happy with that.  So we ended up heading up to Bethel, then Newry and Upton making a stop at Screw Auger Falls.  We then headed down to Andover, Rumford Point and back home.  And yes, the foliage is gorgeous.  I didn't really take any pictures because you just can't get the color from a phone camera.

Dan's Ramblings

Dan still here ~

Thursday evening. Still here because the Nor’easter was a no show around here. Not complaining, just curious, will this be the norm for this winter, scream and holler about the upcoming disaster of a storm coming,,,,, that never shows up? I did not need extra rocks in my pocket, my regular three were enough. Time will tell if we get more than talk this winter. Matters little to me either way, if nothing comes I have nothing to relocate.

September

Carol here ~

I've have felt pretty lousy most of September ~ a couple pukey episodes and several migraines so lots of reclining or horizontal days.  This is the view from my recliner, the leaves change daily.

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday evening, a nice sunny, chilly day. Carol said it was foggy when she climbed out of bed. (It was fine by the time I got up) We took my truck to the shop yesterday afternoon so I did not have to get it in there first thing this morning. I’m not a real big fan of early morning. I try to let the day get started on it’s own and stay out of the way. It seems to work ok that way.