We have a week of temperatures in the 50s, and our first frost warning.\u00a0 We’re supposed to have SNOW on Wednesday, and the forecaster seemed to think the highest accumulation would be over the town where we live!\u00a0 It’s only supposed to be an inch and a half, but still, it’s SNOW!\u00a0 (I can hear the people in Denver, and through out Kansas, laughing, given the snow they had last week.<\/p>\n
I saw an egret and a heron this morning as we came home from exercise.\u00a0 They’ll be gone soon.\u00a0 I wonder if they fly in flocks as the geese do.\u00a0 Dear Husband reminded me that the sand hill cranes fly in flocks, so he suspects the herons and egrets do, too.I brought in four pots of plants that I want to winter over.\u00a0 I suspect they may be shocked to go from the upper 40s to the upper sixties, but I wasn’t up to carrying them to the garage, and then carrying them in.\u00a0 Three of the pots hold geraniums, and the fourth is a pot of spearmint.\u00a0 I’m not sure how the spearmint will do inside, but it seems worth the try.<\/p>\n
There are three pots of iris, and one of thyme that I’ll winter over in the garage.\u00a0 They did well last year.\u00a0 I think I’ll let the chrysanthemums in the pots go.<\/p>\n
It’s time for some Fall cleaning, inside and out.\u00a0 Our favorite landscaper will come to put the gardens to bed.\u00a0 I can’t do the time on my knees any more,and he has wonderful tools to make the job go faster.\u00a0 I need to take down curtains in the garage to be washed and ironed.\u00a0 I can clean the inside windows once I start that, and I’ll arrange for outside windows to be done, too.<\/p>\n
I’m FINALLY going to use EZ-off on the tops of the gas burners on the stovetop.\u00a0 It’s a job that I have intended to get to for ages, and now it the time to get it done.<\/p>\n
And I hope to pull some grapevine down to top off Cousin It, a wonderful grapevine Christmas tree that my sister, Frankie (and her husband) made for me.\u00a0 We wrapped it a couple of years ago, and it’s settled.\u00a0 I’d like to fluff it up a bit, and get the lights wrapped around it again. (Thank you, Frankie!)<\/p>\n
And so its goes….we get ready for colder weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have a week of temperatures in the 50s, and our first frost warning.\u00a0 We’re supposed to have SNOW on Wednesday, and the forecaster seemed to think the highest accumulation would be over the town where we live!\u00a0 It’s only … Continue reading