We hit a new low for trick or treaters this year, tying the all time low: 1 group of 2 kids.
Lot of candy left over.
The good news is that I got a lot of leaves raked Saturday and Sunday. There is an impressive leaf jumping pile in front of the cabana already.
Also the Media center migrated to its winter location:
Saturday we went over to Borders for Adam Tocci’s book signing. Here’s Betsy with the slightly larger than life sized Adam that Kim surprised him with:
Back in July we had a dead oak come half way down. Starting in mid-August, it took me a few days here and there to complete cutting down the tree and then cut it up, along with a few other trash trees I had been meaning to get rid of. After talking with Art about renting a splitter for a weekend to take care of his stock of downed loggage too, I decided to embrace Thoreau’s observation that splitting wood warms us twice.
I sharpened up my splitter (and my machete so I could get some hacking licks in trimming the downed wood), and started spending an hour or two every few days. I have about 1/3 of a cord done already and it has been fun as well as good exercise. Great way to work out aggression.
(link for the flash-challenged)
And as you can see from the last few pictures, burning season is going to be exciting.
After more than 25 years of sleeping on a waterbed, our new Stearns & Foster Market Street Ultra Firm mattress was delivered today. It has a coil density of 825×2, and a long list of features. Some interesting ones to me are:
And it has Smart Latex and Memory foam. Now my mattress and my computer are smarter and have more memory than I do.
The new non-waterbed mattress.
Stearns & Foster
Old waterbed mattress dumped over the deck railing