Busy Day
After getting the quilts on the clotheslines for the last of the season airing, I headed to Sherburn.
Cousin Chris lives in Lakefield, Minnesota. Chris was taking a quilt top to the Old Alley Quilt Shop to have it longarmed sometime in November. We agreed it would be fun to meet and have lunch together at the Cup and Saucer Cafe. The two of us had not had a chance for a two-some for quite some time.
Driving back to St. James it was unbelievable how many combines were out making lots of dust. The soybeans are pretty much out and now the corn needs attention.
When I got home, my oh my! The quilts were off of the clothesline. Dennis was in the patio porch with Snuggles on his lap. Where had all the cut off Hosta and leaves gone under the Maple and Oak trees. Dennis had been using the rake, the leaf blower and a lot of man power to get all of it out and off to the east for being mulched with the Cub Lo- Boy. That area next to the patios and the patio porch has always been a lot of hard work to get as much of the excess out before the snow would bury it. If it was not cleaned out, the next spring it was like layers of rotting vegetation . . . much like manure. That was a huge job. Lots of arm power.
It is now dark out and I am sure Dennis is down for the night. Showered and fed I believe the tuckered out feeling will fall upon Dennis like the leaves he was fighting the last several days.
Tomorrow will tell. Around Stauffer Avenue one can never tell.