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It was a great day Sunday to work in the yard. Shannon mowed while I broke sticks into small 1 foot lengths (so they will fit into our cast iron Chiminea to burn them). Jaki enjoyed being outside so much and ate up the sun as much as possible. She was very exhausted later that evening and into the next morning. She was definitely walking like an “old lady” the next morning after she ate her food.

Shannon wrapped the garden “cross” with red Christmas lights so it’s ready for winter to hit. I still have to clean out the gutters and then put the blue “old time” Christmas lights up onto the gutters around the house. I’m kind of procrastinating on that job!

It was great to do stuff around the yard instead of running around town like I usually do on Shannon’s day off.

Enjoy the pictures! They are located under Photos (across the top of the web site) click on Fall Garden.

Shannon was going through a stack of folded clothes in the basement and stumbled accross an all black wooly worm. He initially thought it was a gigantic spider because the wooly worm was curled up and about the size of a half dollar coin. That would be a big spider, but this was a curled up and very much alive wooly worm. He put it in a plastic container and set it on the kitchen table so I could see it the next day. When I got up in the morning it was there on the kitchen table in a nice little plastic container with lots of air holes in it. But when I got home from work it was not in it’s nice little container. I thought Shannon had put it outside but later saw it on the kitchen floor making a get a way in slow motion. So I took two envelopes and made a little scoop to pick the little guy up and placed him in the garden under a protective covering of a plant so a bird wouldn’t get him.

He looked like this picture I found on the web except our little guy was ALL black - no brown. Shannon said that the colorings on him indicate a very wet, cold, bad winter. Oh goody!

Okay. It stopped raining enough that this morning I was able to run outside and take the pictures of Shannon’s Fall Garden. There was quite a bit of dew on the plants and the flash picked it up and made it look more like frost but it isn’t.

I was able to get a picture of our humming bird. It’s not the best because it’s shot through the kitchen windows screen but you get the idea.

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Good thing I got the pics taken this morning because it’s raining now. We have had a ton of rain this week. Nothing damaging - just a nice gentle rain every day.

I was going to take pictures of Shannon’s Fall Garden but it hasn’t stopped raining enough for me to do so.

I surprised Shannon with a Humming Bird Feeder. We have been wanting to get one for months now and Shannon has even seen a few fly around the back yard. I got one at the Ace Hardware Saturday and it was on sale. I put it on the kitchen window with a cool suction cup hanger that sticks right to the glass of the window. I went inside to see if it was in the correct spot and if I should move it up. While I stood there trying to decide if it should move up or over a humming bird flew right up and started in on the nectar! It wasn’t even up for 5 minutes yet!

It appears to be the same little female humming bird that is feeding. We will hopefully get more humming birds next Spring.

If it stops raining long enough for the sun to come out I’ll take pictures of Shannon’s Fall Garden. He got everything planted in two long beds and it only took him two days to do it.

Shannon bought a ton of plants to put into a new Fall garden area he plans to dig up on Sunday. There will be all sorts of good stuff (if it grows). Cabbage, Broccoli, hot pepper plants (not for me!), and other decorative neat looking stuff. I’ll take pictures and add them to the ol’ blog this weekend.