a little fall for you...

took these yesterday on our drive through the country...

as we speak, the kitchen make over is under way...

lots of sanding and dust flying...

Doug is working on the cabinet doors outside...

Craig is picking up paint tonight...

we have 3 walls to do...

so we are doing everything on one wall and then will move onto the next one...

someone lost his head...

(that will be me by the time we get this finished...)

Doug went to work last night and before he could clock in...

they told him he was laid off...

I think he got a week, maybe 10 days in...

so now he has all the time in the world to help until me moves out again...

photos coming soon...

as the world changes...

we got our good frost...

down to 28 by Sunday morning...

and the transition from living to dying has begun...

what was blooming the day before is no more in some places...

but the cold did not take it all...

some limbs are bare, some have color...

and some are still green...

we have officially begun the process of the change over...

from more dark than light...

and that dark will steal away the warmth of summer days...

there is still beauty...

from what once was...

and there are still blooms, for now...

this changing time happens so fast most years...

but this fall, for us...

is going slowly...

and without all the rain and dreary days that we usually have...

this week, the sanding begins on the kitchen cabinets...

prep work on the walls...

my boys are going to help a lot here...

and we will knock this out...

and float right through this week of Indian Summer...

with highs near 80...

warmer nights coming...

maybe a fire in the pit or two...

harvest is winding down, finally...

and DH thinks this was the last full weekend to work...

I hope so...

it will be nice having him back...

;0)

enjoy this week...

we won't have many more like them...

lady down...

and its not me!

what a beautiful day...

until you stepped outside...

29 for a low last night and sure didn't feel warm at all yesterday...

I am not sure it was even up to the mid 50s by afternoon...

but a high of 62 today, so should be better...

the leaves are turning and falling here and there...

the nuts are all picked up now...

I think it frosted, but not sure...

we had wind...

but it did nip a few things...

the rest of the week will be in the 70s...

Indian Summer!

and these once beautiful pots are getting dumped and put up for winter...

I might fill the basket hangers with walnuts or leaves this year...

greenery after Thanksgiving...

still have most of the leaves on the trees here...

but that won't be for long...

sedum turned darker over night, too...

but this really surprised me...

not looking too bad after the cold night and it is not getting watered...

Doug will be here all week to help out and we can knock some of this stuff out pretty quick...

had a rough day yesterday...

just need a day down to re- coup...

those nuts about did me in...

but, do the worst job first and the rest will seem easy...

so that's what I did...

Doug wants to help me get the kitchen done, too...

so will start him on sanding the cabinets...

and we can run and pick up the paint...

;0)

just think...

by the first of the month...

I can have a new kitchen...

;0)

I just have to keep up with feeding the help!

there's going to be some fat squirrels around here this winter...

yes, there are...

spent yesterday afternoon picking up nuts...

my method?

my gopher and a bucket...

( gopher's are just under $10 at walmart )

worked pretty good...

but there is more out there to do today...

taking breaks looking at this...

its like an ocean of corn stubble...

we hid some nuts in the rail road ties...

we don't get rid of them...

we just move them out of the way of walking and the mower...

did you know lemon balm leaves turn red in the fall?

nuts in the island...

the island is done...

need to finish the tree out back and then the one in front on the edge of the driveway and walkway...

got to make a grocery run this morning...

going for hamburger and a pork roast...

tonight is the Sr Center's Lasagna Supper...

so doing that...

its their yearly fund raiser and its awesome...

they also have a  silent auction that goes along with it...

having trouble grasping the concept that its Saturday...

feels like a Tuesday to me...

;0)

I can say now that harvest is slowing down some now...

won't be long until its over...

and we will have survived another year...

;0)

we are to frost tonight...

hope so...

I want fall leaves...

and if they don't start coming down faster than they have been...

we will be raking the yard until Thanksgiving to get it all done!

2 days of cool and then back to the 70s...

Indian Summer!

I heard yesterday that some of our Canadian bloggers had snow...

they can keep that stuff...

;0)

need to get moving...

shower, dressed, make up...

you know the drill...

have a blessed day...

just a quick update...

just to let you know that the doctor's visit went ok and I think I am going to like this guy...

he is young and gung ho, but other than that...

I think he will do just fine...

told me to take just half a pill of the BS drug the other doc had give me...

put me on thyroid medicine and a baby aspirin a day...

tried to get me to take cholesterol meds, but I am just not going to do it...

they can take out your liver and mine isn't that high...

the only thing we are going to disagree on is how long I live...

he wants me to go into my 90s and beyond...

I have no desire to do that...

he thinks I am odd...

but that's ok...

;0)

Doug showed up this morning and is sleeping on the couch now for a couple of weeks...

he is in between apartments...

the other one's electric bill was almost $400 a month for a one bedroom...

it as all electric and not insulated at all...

got another one lined up, but needs to wait until Nov 1st...

we got some nut raking done after lunch...

and I took some photos, but too tired to edit them now...

need my nap, took some ibuprofen and hoping when I wake up...

I will be able to move...

;0)