Ahhhh........ the gentle sounds of autumn in the mountains. The few trees with yellow leaves have begun giving them up to the breezes. We've added walking to our routine now that the humidly uncomfortable summer weather is dwindling. Our feet scuffed leaves along the path in Konehete Park this morning bringing to mind childhood memories of Hudson and Clinton. One day on my walk home from high school, I removed my shoes on River Street and finished the rest of the way barefoot. Fall leaves are meant to be raked into mountainous piles and lunged in. Fall leaves are to be throw high in the air and enjoyed as they float back to earth. Fall leaves are for pressing and saving between heavy book pages for later memories. On the back porch this afternoon, a few leaves float by me as the last three or four hummingbirds hit the feeders. A few acorns ping the roof as a reminder that soon more will follow. This morning I discovered another hu...
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We are so thankful we don't reside or have a house on the market in Florida now. At the gym two people told me that they just closed on their Florida properties in the past couple of weeks. There's increased Floridian traffic on our roads and in the Ingles supermarket and Walmart parking lots. Just like after Katrina demolished homes and displaced families, many families from Texas and Florida are being forced to relocate. After having been through Charlie, Francis, and Jeanne back in 2004, we found ourselves watching updates on Irma and empathizing with residents as they boarded up their homes and prepared for the worst. Our forecast called for two days of rain with 25 mph winds and gusts up to 50 in the higher elevations. Cliff stacked the lawn chairs in the shed so they wouldn't end up in the creek. I removed the wind chimes from the porch and tucked potted plants safely against the house out of the wind. There are reports...
Early mornings have been cool, 50 degrees, and invigorating. Not much has been done in the garden as I've been coping with right shoulder and muscle discomfort for a couple of months and allowing the inflammation to go too long in my left wrist has weaken the wrist joint. My rheumatologist suggested I wrap an ace bandage or a Velcro wrist wrap to remind myself not to overuse, misuse, or abuse myself. Who me? Cliff helped me prepare the soil for fall potatoes. I've never planted fall potatoes but Barb had such success with hers last fall that I put in a dozen and unlike early spring soil where it takes three weeks to sprout, these were up in less than a week. Just covered them with hay this morning. Cliff trenched three rows the other day for the garlic. This morning I mulched each trench with dead leaves and put ten garlic cloves in each row. I still have to cover the rows with hay to protect them from any harsh winter te...