Welcome! Too early for coffee or tea, here, but we’ve got the fixings. Two fried eggs over easy, toast, and blueberries in cream. I awoke at 0400 CDT with a thirst for cold water. Thaddeus woke up then and moved from his kennel in the front room to my recliner/bed…and he promptly fell back into sleep. Two and a half hours later, the dog returned to his kennel, and I am wide awake.

I have continued to focus on household chores and reading. Also helped with adding a new antenna to the amateur radio tower and a pair of very small solar panels on the roof. An over-winter “proof of concept” rig. We are pretty much surrounded by deciduous trees. Winter brings leafless branches, but also heavy cloud cover with its icy rain and snow.

Again this week, I wrote poems for my two poetry challenges from RonovanWrites dot com and posted them on my Quilted Poetry WP blog: Forest walk and Change of season.

mother’s favorites
yellow tulips at springtime
lips outlined in red

Good afternoon! The day (Saturday) is clear and cold, but there is promise of a warmer week yet to come before the deep frosts return. The pollen counts are down, and I am breathing more deeply. The smoke in the air, flowing from the North and/or West, comes and goes throughout the hours and days, and that is more variable.

I am enjoying the very sharp cheddar cheese. My favorite, and so I’ve saved it for last. It goes well with the gluten-free rice and corn crackers. The other of us went shopping at the grocery store, this weekend, and we now have a good supply of canned goods, as well as milk and fruit.

I feel quite tired, this weekend, and so have spent time reading and taking naps with the Scampers. I did go outside with the camera, where I got a nice shot of the cotoneaster branches with still-clinging leaves to the west of the garden shed. It was in darkness, but for the lamp at the shed door. The leaves are of many colors, brilliant in the darkness and light. I have misplaced the camera since coming indoors. I must remember it on Sunday.

I wrote poems for the Monday and Wednesday prompts from RonovanWrites (dot) com: Not a Clue and Movies of the mind. Movies were not special, since our father was the projectionist at the village movie theater and we got in for free. I was much more absorbed in reading books from the local library and the monthly visit from the county bookmobile. Many books came and went, and I have been quite pleased as more and more of the oldest SF books are reappearing as ebooks on Barnes & Noble.

I attended meeting for worship, this morning, as part of our first hybrid meeting house/Zoom worship. It was scheduled for longer than the Zoom worship has been lasting, so I had to leave before all was done. The Scampers were more than ready for an outing in the back yard and their noontime yogurt meal after that.

I don’t know how it is that time goes by so quickly! I have to put together a meal for myself, now. Best wishes for your week!

Lizl

Welcome to the dead leaves along the sidewalk and the browning grass. I awakened to the sound of rain on the roof and glancing against the window just behind my head. Thaddeus moved to a “safer” spot below the recliner’s extended footrest, taking the top blanket with him.

I seem to be out of contact with the world, for the most part, between computers that work only when they care to and a cell phone that no longer makes or receives telephone calls during ever lengthening time periods. We will be visiting the local Verizon store to see whether anything at hand is within our price range.

The rest of the afternoon (Friday) was spent in the Verizon store at the mall. Very helpful staff, but two eateries near by, and so lots of foot traffic. I was able to try out the telephone the next morning with a call from my sister in New England. We tried the video calling, which was fun. I got to meet both a dog and a cat. Spent a lot of time visiting.

There was a thunderstorm where the host of this afternoon’s Zoom meet-up lives. And so I have the laundry in progress, but have not gotten a nap. Which I am going to take time for now. Our host Natalie’s weekend coffee share is here: Celebrating 6 Years of Blogging. With the colder weather, the skies seem clearer and the air, cleaner. I don’t know what comes with tomorrow.

Best wishes!
Lizl

It’s Saturday evening. The weather is temperate, and nobody seems to know whether we have colder/wetter stuff coming in this week or not. I have been looking forward to snowfall. The leaves have fallen from the taller trees, and my Cotoneaster trees have been turning color and the leaves began to fall. One certain harbinger of shifting seasons is the boxelder bugs hanging to the inside of the screen doors, waiting to get the rest of the way inside.

The week has been a bit of a jumble. I have been staying up until the middle of the night reading and playing with the Scampers. Charlie has been staying awake to keep me company. Then we all sleep through the morning wakeup alarm. I missed all of my online “writing dates” in Google Meet. For the Zoom co-working session today (Saturday), I concentrated on washing, drying, and putting away all available items that merited the washer/dryer. Even the quilted hotpads. I only got one poem written, a tanka for the Monday prompt, but not the Sijo for Wednesday. Instead, I looked through my library for books I hadn’t read for many years. (I found myself deleting some of those books, but set aside others so as not to lose track of them again. My tastes in subject and genre have changed a lot!)

I think that as the times come together again, late autumn, winter and into early spring, the energy flows will resonate; and I’ll relax more. I will be happy to return to Standard time, next weekend. For one thing, my Saturday Social/Co-working session will be 1 PM to 2 PM or 3 PM, respectively. More manageable in some ways.

And now I have to wind this up, because Sunday’s schedule has been beaten upon. I did visit and enjoy Natalie’s Weekend Coffee Share post earlier. Friday, I think. Loving Life in October 2022.

I am glad you stopped by, today. Even though I am talking to myself, I have in turn you to listen to. Each brightens the day.

Hugs & much love,
Lizl

“Jan van Goyen (1596–1656): A Stormy Seascape / Myrskyinen merimaisema / Stormigt hav”
by Finnish National Gallery is marked with CC0 1.0 .

Welcome! I’ve both drip and Toddy coffee to offer, this Saturday evening, as well as a freshly brewed pot of English Breakfast tea. Gouda and Jarlsberg cheeses and rice or corn crackers, if you like.

I am surprised that on Day 4 of NaNoWriMo, I had finished only two poems (poem-a-day challenge among my poetry-writing cohorts), so far. I will perhaps be back on track by the end of the weekend.

I am moving back into more physical exercise, I think, but I am doing more pedaling on the elliptical machine than on the dance and dance exercises. That is because I can read and pedal at the same time. While I wait for Tuesday’s ebooks to arrive: The Laran Gambit (Deborah J Ross/Darkover) and Call Me by My True Names (Thich Nhat Hanh), I also think about the poems that I will write tomorrow.

For the time being, I am focusing as much as I can on relaxing and recovering my health. Catching my breath. And tonight, we have been watching the infrared light show across the back fences, two lots down, with enjoyment. That surveillance camera displays a ghostly panorama, ever changing with the dancing fire reflections and fickle breezes. Time to go to sleep…

Best wishes for your week!
Lizl

Natalie the Explorer – Bay of Fundy: 5 Natural Wonders is where you will find our host’s #WeekendCoffeeShare post. Also, links to other participants’ posts.