On Wednesday, Sept. 6th I
was up and out the door by 7:20 am. The day was looking glorious and even
though it was only 8C I didn’t want to miss a minute of the morning. I headed
out in sunshine and I wasn’t too far down North Line when the ribbon of clouds
covered the rising sun. I walk alone along Baptist Church Road as far as the
turbine that we call ‘our turbine’. It is the closest one to our place on The
Ridge.
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| the sun rising just before my walk |
There was no wind and it made for a
lovely walk. When I got back along the lane I snapped a couple of photos of
this thistle flower. Two of the same plant with two different shades of purple.
It is like the Mother and the daughter, you decide which one is the brightest.
Anyway, they are both pretty.
I didn’t see any turtles this morning, no wild
life of any kind but a couple of geese did fly overhead to our pond.
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| And to the west it looks promising |
When I was walking, 3 buses passed
me, 2 long and 1 short. Sounds like a telephone ring from the 1960’s. Our phone
number on the farm was exactly that on our party line. Do you remember those? I
came back and Bill and Clemson were still in bed. Once I made my tea the door
to upstairs opened and they both joined me. We read posts and chit chatted
about our day’s plans.
Bill went to get water and I had work
still waiting for me down at the end of the lane. I needed to clean up from the
garden ‘purging’ I was doing so set about that. I worked away for about an hour
when I could hear the grader coming down our road. I stopped for a break and
captured the driver looking my way when he got to our drive. He is just in
time, we were starting to notice a few pot holes.
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| Once |
Bill returned after the second pass
through and continued up the lane to fill our fresh water tank. I will be good
now for the days that he is away in London. The grader went by 6 more times
after that and when he finished the road looked great. When I had the weeds and
grass from yesterday’s digging tossed over the fence, I decided to dig up my
irises around the Private Property sign.
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| Second pass |
As the grader went by for the last
time, I had just finished removing the irises and loading them into the
wheelbarrow. I had also discovered 4 or 5 scrap metal pieces in the dirt. You
never know what you’ll find when you dig. I pushed the barrow up the lane, up
the hill and put my tools and equipment away. I’m not sure where to plant the
irises but will figure it out before we leave.
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| Bill returns from getting water |
I’ve decided it was too much of a
pain trying to keep the grass and weeds from growing up around them down at the
post. In the spring, I will plant some annuals there instead. It will look nice
and hopefully will fill the space better. When I went inside Bill and Clemson
were settled in the recliner. Bill was studying and Clemson was sleeping on his
lap.
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| Those are big tire treads |
I made an omelette for our breakfast
around 10:30 and made sure there was enough left for Bill to take tomorrow. I
hopped in the shower and after relaxing a bit we drove to Hanover to see Donna
and Gerry. They are considering a trip in late November/early December to see
us in Arizona. We have put the bug in their ear a few times before but no one
can be pushed or coerced into something like that.
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| After the 3rd pass and still 3 more to go |
With Gerry’s surgery, he is very much
at Donna’s mercy for many/most everyday things and he'd like to do something nice for her. He has wanted to take her
golfing for her birthday since July so this will be a very cool vacation for
both of them once he is fully active again. We are only offering advice with
flights and suggesting areas to meet up with us. We’d love to have them but
time will tell if it works out.
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| With the irises dug up |
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| See how the grass grows in and around the base? |
We left their place a few minutes
before 5 because Clemson was being a nuisance.
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| What me a nuisance? Nah, impossible |
They invited us for supper but
going unprepared for our pooch’s meal plus the fact that Bill has some things
to get ready for tomorrow had us declining ‘with thanks’. For obvious reasons, I felt whooped and
thought that I would sit and try and read for a bit before we had our own
supper.
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| My tool caddy - so to speak |
I found myself drawn to my laptop
instead, realizing that I hadn’t started today’s post yet. I usually get a
start on it right after reading other’s posts but today I neglected to do that.
I don’t like letting it go too long because I forget what I did and that leads
to a very boring, dull posting.
Bill lit the barbecue at 6 and
grilled the burgers and bacon strips. There would be one or two left over for
his supper Thursday night. I also put the remaining rhubarb crisp into a container
for him to take. He doesn’t often get dessert so I hope he remembers to eat it.
He brought our Coolatron into the Suite and plugged it in, now he can load it
up tonight.
Our supper was good, we have what we
call Loaded Burgers with all the fixin’s. Bacon, cheese, mustard, mayo,
lettuce, tomato for me, onion and dill pickle. With a toasted bun we couldn’t
have a better burger. Dishes were cleaned up right away before we got lazy and
I typed some more while Bill made his lunches. It seems like a long time that
he has been home and I’ve loved every minute. I never enjoy seeing him leave
for a 2 day stretch but it always turns out just fine.
Cloud overload.........hope you enjoy these as much as I do
I took one more walk down the laneway
because my Fitbit was asking me to complete my 4 miles for today. I don’t argue
with it, sometimes I ignore it but this time I walked. The sky all day has been
performing some pretty amazing jumbles with clouds, sun and more clouds. We
missed the rain that seemed to have fallen while we were in Hanover. I’ll try
and capture the sunset before signing off tonight.
I finally finished one of the things
I was going to cook, using my apples. I decided on apple sauce and even though
it is a small batch, a very tasty batch I might add, at least I didn’t waste
the apples. Tomorrow, when I am alone I will make some kind of creation out of
the tomatoes that will just go bad otherwise. I have a couple of ideas.
That was a great brisk walk, emphasis
on brisk. I was in capris and a light jacket so I walked very fast. The clouds
make me smile, they are so outrageous! Oh and there is Drake swimming authoritatively
in the pond, all by himself. With a loud honk as I came into view, I simple
snapped a picture and kept on walking.
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| Can you see him across the pond? |
It has been a nice day here with the
things we got into. I hope you can say the same.
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| Goodnight from the Ridge |
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