The months are getting
longer, but the days are getting shorter.
The shorter days are getting
cooler.
Fall is arriving – tomorrow is
actually the First Day of Fall.
So, this morning while drinking my morning coffee, I ran a
list of things through my thoughts that have to get done before frost arrives;
last year Jack Frost came early, and I’m hoping to outwit him this year 😉
It’s a tight-rope walk. The
nights are definitely cooling down – but the afternoons are still quite warm (mid-70’s
to upper 80’s). So, while drinking my coffee and contemplating what needs doing,
I decided to wash the spotty dust off the car: surprise rainfall at surprising
locales on my drives had pitted the dusty residue (from dusty gravel driveways)
on the Highlander. It needed washing. I may be able to get another washing in …
but if sneaky Jack decides to repeat what he did last year, at least the car
got washed today; before frosty weather makes it dangerous to do so until warmer
Spring days.
After that task was
completed, I hauled the garbage bins back from the pick-up curb. I also took
the pruning shears out of the shed and gave the decorative maple tree out front
a trim; new-growth-limb suckers were looking unattractive – and overhanging
limbs were seriously overstretching the curbside. All that needed to be cut
back. I took out some dead limbs, too: and ended up
promptly filling the emptied garbage bin half full, again. Oh well …
Then,
I gathered all my potted geraniums off the front porch and trimmed those back
so they fit nicely into their overwintering bins placed in the carport breezeway.
I transplanted the trimmings and set them in a livingroom window, so I have ‘spares’
if some of my potted plants die (some do, no matter how safely they are
stored); some of the original red flowering stock is 29 years old; the
fancier strains are somewhere around 10 years old: nothing lasts forever
– eventually things need to be replaced with younger stuff 😉
After placing the
transplants in the window bin, I noticed that one of my cactuses have
blossomed! It’s early, but it’s nice to see 😊
Tonight, is the night I drive
across the boundary line, and spend time with my Kelso friends – I was pushing
it timewise: I had just enough time to wash the dirt out from under my
fingernails (the polish was ruined, and no time to fix that), and wash/dry
my hair, before I had to rush out of the house and across town.
I like spending time with
these new friends … and there’s space for them in my life because I am currently
rearranging some things in my life. And that’s okay. Life is always changing
course, and we have to go with the flow: things change, people change
– life goes on.
It was a busy day today.
It was a day rife with an
attitude of positive expectations.
It was a day of satisfied accomplishment,
and self-encouragement, that feeds hope for this new life of mine.
