Me at My Rendezvous Lodge
October has kinda snuck up on me – I’ve been busy trying to get as much done on my house & yard as possible ever since the weather became reasonable in late August. The storm windows are off and I’m painting the window frames that are behind the storms plus the storms themselves. Both doors to the house are painted as well as the front eve. The back eve needs one more coat. I’m out of paint now, so further painting is on temporary hold. My Harley is finally fixed & road worthy, but the rain has prevented me from picking it it as yet. Oh well, this weekend should be warm & sunny.
Fall has always seemed a time of beginnings – the legacy of starting school for either myself or my urchin for 38 of my 59 Septembers on this earth. I actually feel at rather loose ends to not be buying textbooks and all that. And I miss the excitement of learning with other folks in a group instead of just reading things on my own. I suppose this joy of learning with a group is what drives the various lecture series etc. aimed at retirees.
I have had a beginnings of one sort at least. I’ve gotten broadband interwebs at the house and gone cell only for my phone service. By terminating my relationship with my Century Link landline I also stopped their annoying buy-this-service calls. Which is wonderful. nTelos does not call its customers unless its a bill payment issue. Which is how it should be. I now have a nice bright red Samsung cell phone with nice big buttons and a thingie the size of a jump drive in a USB port on my computer. WooHoo ! I can actually download sizable updates etc. I am a happy camper.
I’ve also changed primary banks. The automated telephone customer service used by Bank of America has failed to serve me for the last time. BB&T offers a much friendlier telephone & website interface. The local branch employees are friendly too, but then the local Bank of America branch wasn’t the problem.
Sorry, no fall rendezvous pictures yet. The fall SLR event was fist cancelled due to open fire restrictions at the site, then rescheduled an hour farther away. I had thought to go to the local BMW rally but the Harley had some lights that weren’t lighting and a bad manifold seal – both easy enough to fix but not in time for the rally.
Its mid fall here at the house. The lower story in my woods is beginning to die back and the leaves are just beginning to fall. The evening woods are still full of little critter songs but they quiet down well before midnight. The dry summer meant the creeklet went totally dry for about a week, but the recent rain has put it back into service. Their have been several light frosts but no killing frost as yet. It seems the woods is just going to slide into winter by small little steps. Which is not a bad thing at all.
