Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday evening. Another beautiful fall day, sunny, warm and amazingly calm. Outdoor duties today included gathering some wood to split, more ditch was dug and more leaves raked. The load count of tractor buckets containing wet leaves removed from the beach is at 43 with today’s two added in. The driveway is blown off almost every day as the leaves have been falling like rain. Not that there has been a lot of rain falling around here lately. 

October

Carol here ~ 

October sure has been a beautiful month.  Even though we are now past foliage season the oak leaves are still hanging on and are a nice contrast to the blue skies ~ many days of blue skies!  Just beautiful!

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday evening and it’s windy as all get out. No idea where that expression came from. Cold and windy out, I’m glad it was only chicken burgers I was cooking on the grill for supper. Carol suggested the other day that grilling ends soon as before long it will be dark at supper time. Between that and the cold, grilling may need to stop for a while. I may move the grill closer to the door and sheltered, we’ll see.

We spent a couple hours last Sunday refolding and relocating all the quilts Carol showed you earlier this week that had been displayed on Paris Hill. It was different and it is over, enough said.

Quilt Show

Carol here ~

I thought I would would just do a photo dump of the quilts we showed at the Paris Hill Quilt Show this past Saturday.  Enjoy!

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.