Countdown to October is now 2

 TERRY

As I write it is 8:00 and Terry is half awake and half sleeping.  I have put her covers on twice since 5 this morning as she tends to kick them off!  No plans for the day but I am sure she will be ready for the paper soon.

As I walked out to get the papers I felt a welcome feel in the air as the temp was 68!  It seems that the magic number is 69 and below as that is when one feels like fall is in the air.  Here in Naples the weather that fall brings is VERY welcome.  This past summer was the first summer I have spent in Naples and am thinking there are better places to be in the summer than in a place where the temp is usually in the low 90s during the afternoon!  Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining just saying Naples is hot in the summer!!!

No tennis today but I have hopes that this may be almost the last Friday of no tennis for a while.  It seems like every day I see more and more people here.  Yesterday as we played in the morning Frans from England and Denmark stopped by.  AND tomorrow Jim S will play with us for the first time this season so things are changing and I would say for the better as well.

Have to share this picture that was on the computer screen today.

Really it makes one NOT want to go into the store as I am NOT used to Christmas in September and I have seen Christmas things in Costco as well.  I used to think it was awful when Thanksgiving things were out in October but now Christmas----not good.

I have no plans to go any place today except I may hit the grocery store as there is a dish I would like to make for MY hot dish!!!  I would say I am getting along fine without the mail order meals so not sure when or if I will start them up again.  If I remember I cancelled them through next week.  I felt by then we would have Sonia again but not sure that is happening either as no word from her.

I admit I am getting a tiny bit older.  To be clear I am getting older but not tiny!  Not ALL the time but there are times like this morning when I feel the cool fall air and think about the past.  Harvesting corn was one of the FUN jobs of farming.  Usually it was cool, no itchy dust and often we would stop the tractor when picking corn to harvest squash that Dad had put in the planter.  Also shelling the corn and seeing the pile of corn cobs pile high was fun.  Then it was knowing that I would be carrying buckets of corncobs into the house which Mom used in the cook stove.

That is pretty much the kind of bucket we used.  We would bring a pail full of corncobs in when Mom needed the stove for cooking.  Once they got the propane stove they moved the cookstove out for trash and Dad built his darkroom which took maybe a third of the kitchen space.  It was nice for us when the dark room was finished as that meant NO more covering the windows at night etc.  BUT I do think Mom missed the kitchen space and the cook stove.  I am sure she was happy to get the propane stove but the cook stove was fun to use.  As I write this maybe she was glad to get rid of it I am not sure!!!

Here is a load of corn that was going into the corn crib OR shelled.

You can see where Dad put an extra board on the side so we could load more on the wagon.  We did not use that for grain of course.  In the background you can see the road going north up to the lake.

No it is about time to sign off for the morning.  Terry woke up and asked for the cover to be put on the bed again.  I brought the paper in for her and opened the shade BUT as I write she is sound asleep again.

Time to sip the last of the FP and get going for the day BUT not sure of why I need to get going or to where???