August 31, 2012
Can you feel it? It
is out there. I feel it at dusk, by the
edge of our timber and in the mornings when I take our dog outside for a
‘squirt’. (That’s what we call it,
sorry). I don’t feel it yet during the
day, only at night, but it is almost here.
That change in temperature after the sun sets and when it begins to
rise in the morning. Fall is getting
closer. I think she is just down the
road and around the curve.
Actually I am going to open my front door and say, “Hurry
up, fall, and cool us off.
Welcome.” This has been a rough
summer for people, animals, gardens, bugs, rabbits, grass, ants, hummingbirds,
and most living creatures around here. I
think I’ll get the broom and try to sweep some of summer out the back door
(along with some dog hair) to make room for fall.
This week I looked at the drooping, dried up sunflowers
growing around my telephone pole. (By
the way I don’t have a telephone but the pole has to remain in the yard, so I
decorate it). They looked so tired and
bent. They made my back hurt. I grabbed the loppers Sunday morning, while
still in my pj’s, after Jazz’s “squirt” and cut the stalks back. It was time.
It is also time for the annual “clean out the shed and make
room for the lawn ornaments” celebration. Dennis was a dear and hauled his
horse buggy home to make room in my shed for storing things this winter. We do not have a horse, but he has two
beautiful, hand crafted buggies, just in a case a horse drops in one day, I
guess. Now do not laugh. Shortly after I moved to Rusty Nail Garden
(it was then called “What the Heck”) we had a stampede! Two wild horses came running from the
cornfield next door, through the neighbor’s front yard, and clip clopped down
the road at a furious gallop. We soon
learned the neighbor around the bend owned the horses, and they escaped for a
little outing. So, we might end up with
a horse someday. Bacon the pig dropped
in a month ago! (another neighbor’s)
Where was I? Who
knows. One story leads to another and
your mother and I get confused. You
would too! Enjoy the onset of fall. I am!
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