Frost on the Roof.....

 

 If I had placed a pumpkin outside last night I would have had frost on it this morning. It was cold and the frost left the grass wet. I mowed anyway as I had the front yard to finish up We actually had sunshine today and it is welcomed. 

I have my mowing done for the season even though I will return to mow leaves under the maple tree. Our rains made the grass grow and the front yards of mine and the neighbor lady's was really long once I started cutting into it.

It is really hard to take just one shot of the blue spruce as it has this competing maple next to it. It actually helps make the spruce look greener.  

Inside the cut flowers look great without any risk of cold weather. It is a good spot of color on the dining room table at each meal. 

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Thursday is Good.....

 

Our neighbors have cleaned up all of the leaves from the ground that fell from this tree.  As I glance over to see the tree in the distance there are these bright spots of red. I had to get my camera and zoom in to see what they were.  A few stray branches of leaves are hanging on longer than the rest of the tree. I will be watching to see when they finally fall.

I mow and mulched up the leaves from the crimson red maple tree.this morning. It really wasn't dry enough and yet it had enough moisture that I wasn't breathing any of the dust.  As you can see the tree will drop a lot more leaves but I did get the first round done on it. I will mow my front yard tomorrow. I will pick up the neighbor lady's front yard at the same time as it is nice to keep every one's grass length the same height. 

The blue ball is moving inside soon.  I have it next to the back door and it it gets bad I can just grab it and bring it inside.  The are projecting the possibility of snow on Saturday so getting these first rounds of mulching done is good. I know that when the snow is gone I can get out and do it again. One has to bundle up a little as it is cold. 

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Middle of the Week....Rain

 It is what it is. I didn't have shoes so I just stood in the doorway and took a shot. The deck was wet from a morning rain. I wanted to get a shot of our maple tree that actually is turning somewhat orange. It is a crimson king maple so the leaves stay pretty dark the whole season. When the drop they look like they are black. I will try to get some new shots taken tomorrow as today seemed to be to busy.

I brought up my Thanksgiving cactus from the basement a few days ago. It isn't going to have a lot of blooms but they will look good and be welcomes. 

We had an appointment for my wife today. It was a folly trying to find the clinic as it was somewhere that we were not familiar.  It was a checkup for approval for her one last appointment to remove a stent, which is next week. The stent is in the area where her gallbladder was. She is stronger everyday and walks around with a lot of confidence. 

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Tuesday....P.M

 

I have taken the shots of the moon for a long time. Sometimes I just take a break knowing they all look pretty similar. The draw is that when I go out to take down the flag I get drawn in to its glow.  I just have to take one more photo.

 

 

 While outside I successfully got the view of my outdoor garden light.  I bought it not know that it would do this pattern but I am glad that it does. 

I worked on the bathroom floor again today.  I had caulking to do in certain areas along with the edge to the shower. I need to now replace all of the woodwork that I had removed to do a good job. When that is done, I am done. I have one piece of woodwork that is behind the stool that was abused by the three previous owners. I really feel that I need to remove it and sand it down to refresh it. They were slopping painters and it looks like they used a sloppy mop that went up on the wood. 

We have one appointment in the morning and it looks like it will be raining too much for me to mow leaves in the afternoon. I can just wait to mulch until the time is perfect. Hopefully it will before we get snow. 

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Cold but Colorful....

 The day finished off with a sight like this in the sky. The sun sets behind the houses so I get the benefit only of its reflection only.

It has been a busy day with my work on the bathroom floor. All that is left to do is replace all the woodwork edging and the door frames with shortened side pieces. It is cold outside and seems like it is gong to be the norm for quite a while.

Sunday PM......

 It is time to bring in the decorative bird houses. I have them lined up along the wall under the eave. I will get them inside soon. 

My neighbor's maple tree has now lost most of its leaves.  They all lay on the ground around the base of the tree. I used the tree as my measure of how the seasons were changing as when it first started to turn colors at the top to the loss of all its leaves. The tree lost a major branch a few months ago during one of our wind storms.

 

Different kinds of maples are in my two neighbors' yard are at their stages of loss of leaves. Richie's tree is almost bare tnow with mostly limbs showing now.

The silver maple is an old tree that I can see a few blocks away. It looks like a Halloween tree at this time of the year. I had so many silver maples on my old property in Woodward and gradually I lost them from old age. They were taken down. I enjoy having the good memories of those trees when I see this tree.

Looking down from my deck you can see that my grass has revived. We have had over three inches of rain in the past couple of weeks and it started to grow again. I will start mowing up the leaves soon as soon as I am finished with my bathroom floor project. Tomorrow I will finish the stick tile in the bathroom. Most of the floor is done but I have to do the area around the stool. I was too tired to finish it on Saturday. Crawling around on the floor putting down tile can cause lots of aches and pains. The job looks so good and is covering up 20 year old ugly floor covering that was put down when the house was built. It is a joy to cover up a flooring that some other person picked out so long ago.  I will be glad for Monday to come and move on to the finishing of a project. 

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Saturday....No Sun Yet....

 

 

One more bud is left to open. The orchid is a year old and just bloomed again for me with no effort from me. I just gave it tablespoons of water once a week. 

 

 

The rains gave my almost dead sedum some redish colors. It seems we have moved to the level of a moderate drought now after a few weeks of spotty rains. 

The rose hips are few but there are some. The bush needs to be pruned back and I am  hoping there will be some good fall weather yet in order to do that. 

This maple tree doesn't have the most colorful leaves as some other kinds but it is showing some rusty colors this fall. The sun shining on it with the comparison of dark green spruce makes a good color contrast that makes the maple leaves look better.

I will start laying floor tile in the bathroom today.  I don't have any plans to finish it today and I will just finish it on Monday.  I have all the woodwork trim removed and refinished. I have some final decision to make as to what pattern I want to use to put down the tile squares. I tend to like to be creative so the squares may not be all stacked squares. It is a gray dull day so far. We had some rain in the night as the deck is still wet. I can wait to mulch leaves when it drys out some. Have a good weekend.