A Bit of Fall

We got just a sprinkle of rain, not even enough to settle the dust, before the much anticipated cold front began blowing through around 3:30 today. What a relief! The temperatures were in the mid 90s today and reached 98 degrees at Raleigh Durham Airport!

These next few days should feel a lot like fall so, I've gone crazy with fall colors, especially in the old cupboard...

Isn't it amazing what rag and bottle of Old English furniture polish will do!

a little closer look...I found the large dinner plates at Goodwill this week...

That's hickory nuts in the bowl...

Have you ever tried to crack open and eat a hickory nut? What a job! Poppy did crack one with the hammer and we both got a tiny taste.

Anyhow, fall of the year makes me want to work outside, clean up, and move things around. 

Wish you could have seen the junk we hauled out from under this old shed. It hasn't been this neat and clean in years. Poppy used to park his four-wheeler here...

Hay is stored in the old freezer covered with a tarp. Nailed a strip of wood across the back of the shed to stand garden tool and my bamboo poles.

Pulled out the old wooden tool box too and filled it with kindling wood. Good for starting fires this winter.

The kindking is kinda dusty from being stored in a cardboard box for too long.

Can't go without a word about sweetie pie rabbit...

I really believe he loves the wide open space in his big ole dog lot, and the ramp up to his box...

and! I'm building a little garden room just outside his pen. There was a mess of old cinder blocks stacked there so I've just re-arranged them a bit...

not exactly pretty yet but I've only just begun...

There is really nothing pretty about a cinder block so I need to come up with some pretty ideas. Any suggestions??

Well, The TV just cut off. Poppy must be headed this way so I will stop here. This is probably way too much anyhow. 

Oh, Smokey wants to say goodnight...

Thanks for looking!

Love, Henny

The Guineas ruined lunch

Know why my apron pockets are bulging? It's another sign of fall. Acorns. I love acorns.

I never could resist picking up acorns. These are mostly green but sometimes the acorns are fall colored with orange, brown, and yellow. One fall I filled a small basket with big colorful acorns and put the basket in the living room. After a few days I was shocked to find tiny white worms all in the basket and on the floor. I tossed everything out the door.

These are the first acorns I've noticed on the ground. Late yesterday the wind got up, blowing like there was a storm coming. The clouds got dark and there was a sprinkle of rain across the pond, but never a storm. The winds must have caused these acorns to fall.

Did you know that a guinea will kill a frog? Neither did I. Well my day is ruined! I had just put Bun Bun in the dog lot and was on my way to the teeny tiny garden to pick a handful of grape tomatoes for my salad when I spotted it. One of the guineas holding onto a big frog. My first instinct was to tackle the guinea and save the frog. I stood still for a second peeping through a crack in my fingers that were covering my eyes. The frog was limp. Suppose I did get the frog away from the guinea and the frog was not quite dead but was badly injured. If only I had gone out there sooner. I love frogs. I realize that this is simply nature's way. I can't save everything. Poor frog. I went on to the garden and got that handful of grape tomatoes but somehow the salad doesn't sound too good now.

Here they are acting all innocent. Probably searching out another frog...

I went out to look for the dead frog but it was not there. 

Better get busy. The living room floor needs to be vacuumed again, thanks to Eli, and I am the vacuum cleaner person around here.

Thank you for visiting.

Love,
Henny Penny