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Have a good Sunday wherever you live in this world.   Thanks for stopping by my post today.

Saturday Afternoon........

We have had some rain and are expected to get some more this late afternoon.  The temperatures have jumped up and it will encourage us to have severe weather.

My redtwig dogwood is still green with red stems.  The red maple and yellow birch created an interesting view.

The last of the morning glories.  All the vines are dead and the seed pods are just hanging in there ready to dry up.

I finished putting up the sheeting on my neighbor's kitchen walls this morning.  I will return to cut molding and other refinement tasks she will find for me to do in the future.  She is so glad to get it up and now has some painting that she will complete herself.

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Summer Growth and Fall Harvest.........

I posted my neighbor's cornfield in the late spring and the field is green and lush.  In spite of the lack of rain, the field did fairly well in putting out two ears of corn per each stalk.

The evidence of the corn being stunted is shown here with less kernels on one of the ears.  Regardless of the lesser yield, the less corn going onto the market this fall has driven up the prices so the farmer will balance out financially.

While I was working on the kitchen project for my neighbor lady, the combine hit the field with a roar.  She took her camera out to take photos of it so I could keep working and also post my blog with pictures of her cornfield.

Two wagon loads of corn were taken away while I was working and there were two more empty wagons lined up to take on corn.  I didn't see them getting filled up but if they did, the 11 acre field did a good job of producing corn.

When you hear the tractors planting the corn you know it is spring, but when the combine is out there harvesting you know it is fall.  One looks up to see if the geese are flying south and if the small birds are grouping for a migration.

It is Friday and I am glad.  I am tired and will be glad for Saturday.  We have severe storms predicted for the day but it may be spotty.  They are talking tornado weather.   Thanks for stopping by today.

Thursday's Blooms.........

It has been freezing weather and the one morning glory seems to be ignoring the temperatures.  In the late afternoon I can go out to the garden shed and find at least one or two of these blooming.  The vine to the left of it is shriveled up and dead.

The flower itself is pretty frail too as it is during a cool afternoon that it is blooming and not in the morning sun.  I see there are a lot more buds on it and if it survived last night's cold it will enjoy our next few days of warm weather.

The water level on my pond is low now so I put out water in trays for the birds, squirrels, cats and possums.  I can also smell a skunk out there on a windy day.  I hope it isn't coming into my back yard.  I figure he is at the neighbors eating cat food. The level of the water is too low for them to reach from the side of the pond so I hope I can keep from having any drownings.

I have a couple of more days to work in the special education room and Monday I will be out in the total staff pool in which to sub.   Thanks for stopping by today.

In the Middle of the Week.....

This is another view of timber in Iowa.  I asked at the beginning of the hike through these woods if they had deer.  The owners said there were a lot of them  and that they loved to mess with the trees in the area.

Any small trees in the area have wire fencing around them to keep them from rutting them.  The deer rub their antlers against trees during the rutting season and they end up tearing off the bark of the small tree trunks and also breaking off a lot of the branches.

This is the fall sky at my house with the silver maple turning yellow before its leaves start to fall.  I put all of my outdoor potted plants back outside yesterday afternoon.  I was tired of walking around them.  It was 29 degrees this morning by my thermometer and I may have lost a few of those plants.  I thought we were warming up and the nights were suppose to stay in the 40's.  It will be time soon to give them up anyway so if the are dead they will be dean.

This is my last day to sub for the instructor who was injured in a rollover with his four wheeler.  If his doctore releases him to go back to work then I will be back into the main stream of the sub pool.  I hope you are having a good day where ever you live in the world.  Thanks for stopping by my post.

Cat on a cold metal grill........

Tom Tom likes sleeping on my car but I looked out the other day and there he was on the grill.  He likes to find high spots on which to sit.  One can look out and see him on top of our garbage bin or asleep in one of our garden chairs.

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Bury me next door.

I looked out last week and watched the neighbor kids installing their Halloween cemetery. I told my wife that if I died during this next month she wouldn't have to take me far to put me into the ground.

Maple leaves are looking great.  We visited with friends of ours out at their home in the woods near Luther, Iowa last night.  The fall leaves were peaking a few days ago and then suddenly just turned brown.  I guess the hard freeze stopped the color.  They have a timber area next to their house and it was all brown. The grasses and leaves all are muted brown.

 Our friends are both artist, living out there in the woods and next to their house is a wild prairie that they planted.  I told them they need to add buffalo to make it complete.  They have plenty of deer, raccoons and possum.  We avoided hitting three deer on our way home as I was keenly aware that there is a large heard of 30 or more deer that live in the area.

Three stray ones were trying to cross the road and I had to wait for one of them to cross before I could travel on home. We have had to wait before, last winter,  for the herd to cross the road as there are more of them than me. It reminds me of when the herds of buffalo in the Dakotas decide to cross a road and you just park and wait for them to move through and quit crossing the highway.

 We also toured the nearby Ledges State Park which is next to their property.  It too had no color on any trees.  Our friends said the red of the sumac last week was great but now it is all brown.  I guess we are lucky to live in town where our  trees were not affected the same way.

The hostas are failing quickly and they are mostly gone now.  The grass that you can see under the leaves is still green.

It is Monday and the day has started.  I hope everyone had a great weekend.  We will warm up today to 71 degrees and it will be a sunny day.  I may have to work outside today when I get home.  I need to return to the neighbor lady's house to finish putting sheeting on her wall above her sink.  I told her I was too sore fron using unused (less used) muscles to return today.

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