enjoying the afternoon...

this afternoon has been so pretty for the first day of fall...

but instead of showing you the first of fall...

I wanted to share the last of summer...

and sunspots...

and blooms...

green...

lonesome here...

spending our anniversary apart...

he's already an hour later than his normal 8 hours...

overtime...

we so need it right now...

and he is grabbing every minute of it...

I just wish he would have come home early today...

but he is practical...

men tell you that they love you every day...

if you know how to listen to them...

every morning they get out of bed and head for a job that they do not like...

every time they grab extra hours...

every week when they bring their check home...

they are saying that they are doing this for you...

your family...

some women don't see that...

they want to talk and they need to hear it...

sometimes you need to listen with your heart...

his gift to me today is working over...

my gift to him would have been for him to come home early...

but since he is there...

it will be to use that extra money wisely...

to pay as many bills as possible and to stick as much back as I can...

not to waste what takes so much of him to give...

he has told me every day for 27 years that he loves me...

and I have heard every word...

27 years ago...

 I married my best friend...

1984...

Average Cost of new house $86,730.00 
Average Income per year $21,600.00 
Average Monthly Rent $350.00 
Movie Ticket $2.50
1 gallon of gas $1.10 

(would love to see those prices again)

• Aids Virus identified by French Immunologist



• AT&T Broken Up



• The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale



• Sony and Philips introduce the first commercial CD Players



• Sony makes the first 3 1/2" computer disk



• The Space Shuttle Discovery has its maiden voyage



• First Ever flight in Space by Human untethered using jet back Packs



• Genetic fingerprinting or DNA profiling was developed and is now in wide by Forensic scientists when obtaining evidence in a crime

MOVIES...

• Ghostbusters
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Gremlins
• Beverly Hills Cop
• Terms of Endearment
• The Karate Kid
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
• Police Academy
• Romancing the Stone
• Splash
• The Terminator
• Amadeus
• The Killing Fields
• A Passage To India

TOP TV SHOWS...

• Magnum, P.I.
• Dynasty
• Entertainment Tonight
• Falcon Crest
• Hill Street Blues
• Cagney and Lacey
• Cheers
• Fame
• Knight Rider
• The A-Team
• Jeopardy!

seems like another world now...

so much has changed...

and we have grown...

still together after all these years...

all the hardships...

and all the joys...

Happy Anniversary, Fartman!

while most of them are still on the trees...

the canopy that we have enjoyed all summer will soon be gone...

and the skies will be bigger than ever...

lemon balm is seeding...

the walnuts have been shedding for awhile and the corn is almost ready...

leaves on the ground...

there's nothing like corn rustling and leaves floating by...

I wish this time lasted just a little bit longer...

I could get into 3 months of fall happening...

so before they all turn and float back to earth...

here are some leafy shots...

have a great day!

the time in between...

the time in between the sunshine...

the time in between summer and fall...

the time in between Earth and Heaven...

the time in between birth and death...

the time in between until we meet again...

today is my father-in-law's birthday...

his second in Heaven...

our second without him...

he would have been 89...

the gate was his...

the flag was his...

flown in his honor for his service in WWII...

it will be retired this year to the VFW post here in town...

I named my blog after that gate...

because for so long...

it opened into the most beautiful back yard...

full of tulips, daffodils, lilacs, roses, sweet peas...

and an old tire swing...

he was a gardener, a photographer, a minister...

and he is so missed...

especially today...

the time in between when we meet again...

rainy afternoon...

the rain just started...

but it's been gloomy all day...

brownie making day...

nap taking day...

DH had to work yesterday and part of today...

makes the days run together...

the dust system went out...

and they have to have it running...

or they have to shut down...

not a good thing at harvest...

some are picking...

this rain will slow them down...

the part they were waiting for cost $4,000...

a gear reducer...

cost them $1,000 to ship it in 7 hours...

good thing it wasn't something major...

but it's all fixed and all put back together...

now we have to wait for the rain to stop and things to dry out again...

have a great evening...