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. 

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.