Another Nice Fall Day!

Well the weather people were saying that we would finally drop below eighty degrees today, well, it is eighty-two degrees right now but I do not mind them making this kind of mistake. Earlier in the week it was closer to ninety degrees which is a little hotter than I care for especially this time of year.

This morning while I was outside picking some raspberries for my cereal I notice a lot of red over in my tomato patch so I knew that I would need to pick some more tomatoes later on.

After eating I went outside and thought that I would rake the front lawn before it got too warm so I got out my rake and got most of the walnut and rhododendron leaves and the walnut shells that the squirrels had chewed the meat out of. There were not many leaves yet but I like to keep it that way. If I wait too long it gets to be too much.

After raking I got out my blower and air swept the front and back sidewalks and the driveway; again it was not really too bad but if I keep at it a little at a time it is not as big a job for me and I can get it done quicker.

After I finished with the driveway I put away the blower and then went out back and pruned the roses and cut down some spent fox glove plants. Then I got our old dog food storage bin and put my garden tools into it.

I had been keeping them in a couple buckets and now they are in one place and I am keeping it under the apple tree for now. I will have to see just how water tight it is once it starts raining and I may have to change my plans at that time.

I got into the house a Kathleen was making herself breakfast so I cleaned up and poured myself another cup of coffee and had an Entenmann's glazed buttermilk donut while she had breakfast.

I decided that I needed to make a doctor's appointment to see if there is anything that I can do to relieve my back and hip pain; the Tylenol is just not helping much anymore. After I made the appointment I took the vegetable scrap container out to my composter and dumped it in there and gave it a few cranks to stir everything up.

I just heard that this weekends temperature is suppose to be in the nineties...much too hot for me. The only good thing about that is that it cools off enough at night so that it is not as bad as it is when the temperature stays warm at night.

Well, Around 1330 I made myself a Boca Burger with a freshly picked tomato, sweet onion and pepper jack cheese and then toasted it in the toaster oven. I also had some tuna salad from last night and some multi-grained chips.

Kathleen left shortly after I started eating to meet with the lady from church and she is still gone so she must have decided to do a little shopping. Well the longer I sit the stiffer my back gets so I think I will go ahead and post this.