Today is Cliff's birthday. Mark called this afternoon to see how I was doing and we had a lovely talk. He sounds good. Sometimes I get concerned about him but he's really doing okay. We both found things to laugh about. He's had rainy days for the past two weeks from the tropical systems. It's terribly humid and there is standing water everywhere. The temperature here this morning at six o'clock was forty-six degrees with thick mountain fog. I went to the Murphy farmers market around nine and bought Swiss chard and the last of their green beans. Only a few more weeks of these markets. The fog finally burned off around 10:30 when the temperature shot up to high sixties. The rest of the day was wonderful. This has been the nicest October in the eighteen years I've lived here. Last Sunday my last hummingbird perched on the front feeder and when she didn't show up Monday or Tuesday, I figured she had left for Cent...