"Rain rain go away. Come again some other day! " goes the childhood rhyme I have playing in my head. Our chickens are so tired of their wet henyard they hardly poked their heads out of the henhouse yesterday!! Today it is not raining yet and I've been enjoying this overcast day.It has rained so much lately that the creek is roaring below the house. I'm ready for a bit of a break so that I can enjoy the outside and more easily get a bit of the outside work done.
The leaves have turned to the road into a series of giant bouquets. The chickadees are busily emptying the bird feeder and stashing the seeds in all the little nooks and crannys they can find in our woods. I feel like the chickadees. There is a vague uneasiness that comes to me about this time of year. I want to store up and shore up before the winter storms come with their swirling gusts of snow to bury us in our valley.
It's interesting that the Bible tells us not to worry about tomorrow because God takes care of the birds and not to concentrate on building bigger bigger and barns but it also tells us to be like the ant and to get ready for the future by storing up as the ants do and not being lazy. So there is supposed to be a balance in our lives. We should not be like Ebeneezer Scrooge in the famous Christmas tale storing up for the sake of storing up. Then again we need to take care of our families and take care of our possessions. It's quite a balancing act sometimes.
When I am copying the ants I like to freeze and can in the fall. Song and I froze a couple of bushels of corn last week. Yesterday I was busy cleaning and organizing our very dirty messy basement. It's a good fallish thing to do now that it's cold enough to need a fire in the woodstove! I was putting the peaches, peach jam, and cans of kidney beans I bought on sale on the pantry shelves.It's part of basement organizing that is lots of fun to do. Then I was pulling down cobwebs, tossing out trash, putting things back in the right places and sweeping up dirt. It's always amazing to me how dirty and disorganized the basement gets in the summer when I am not down there very much! It feels good to have cleaned up some of that dirt, organized a bit. Now I can see how much produce is lined up waiting for winter in the pantry on the shelves and is filling the freezer.
Next I need to take a load of stuff to the second hand store and a load to the dump and a load to the burning pile. I sorted things acccording to put away, give away and throw away as I made my way across the room.
I brought my pots of impatiens in the house along with plants my biologist daughter left here when she moved. It's too cold for these to be outside now but the flowers will keep blooming in the house till Christmas with some tender loving care. I still have an herb garden to bring in too. I noticed my Rosemary I was given for Christmas has been happy out in the yard. I used a sprig of it on a pork roast last week!
We went on a breathtakingly beautiful hayride this past Sunday evening and were given pumpkins by Son's employer who hosts a fall picnic and hayride through his hilly farm for his employees and their families. So now we have four pumpkins to decorate our porch with instead of the pots of flowers I had there all summer. I'm slow to make the shift from summer to fall but I'm getting there!
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You certainly are busy! Fall has always been one of my favorite seasons. It is always busy and definitely seems to include a lot of preparation for the winter months. It's been gray and cloudy here for the past day or so but aside from this morning, we've had no rain!
@TheCheshireGrins - oh hard to imagine no rain. We've been doing everything under umbrellas, and or wet jackets. The ducks love it!!
We are just starting to get fall rain and it feels so good. Last night I woke up to rain on the roof and was sooooooo happy. I feel very safe when it rains.
@botanyhead - Hmmmm interesting that it makes you feel safe. Maybe because you grew up under the banner of the theme song,"When the rains of the Spirit are falling fill every vessel for he who drinks his fill will thirst no more......."
@sloggy - That's an interesting idea. I'm not sure why but, it does...I love rainy days.
gal, you sound VERY busy! But to top it off with a hayride sounds so wonderful!!!!
@jimsruby - It was a lot of fun!! I'm enjoying reliving it when I look at the pumpkins on the porch!