Fall Colors and More

Our fall colors have gotten to the gold/bronze/ maroon stage now. Still pretty, just more subdued. This picture is from 2007, looking out the front door. Glad we didn't get that early snow over the weekend. Heck, this place gets paralyzed when it snows in JANUARY! Snow before Halloween would have put them over the edge.

The six new pullets have integrated pretty well into the rest of the flock. I think they're over trying to fit four or five into a nest box to sleep. Tonight I found two boxes with a pair in each, one with one of our more docile older hens, and one by herself on a roost. I'm only getting one or two eggs per day right now, and sometimes none at all, due to molt and shorter daylight. I could put a light in the coop on a timer, but it would involve 3 extension cords, so I'd rather just put up with less eggs.

Mosheim School's Heritage Days is coming up at the beginning of Thanksgiving week. I'll be doing a spinning demo again for them. They have the various classes rotate through the demonstrations for 30 min. each. Last year, most of the younger kids (3rd grade was the youngest, I think) seemed interested in the spinning, but the 7th and 8th graders practically yawned in my face. I've requested that the 7th and 8th graders be replaced with K thru 2, so I'm not wasting my time being there. Hopefully they'll have time to rearrange the schedule.

One of my sisters was here last week, so we went through the family pictures that I have and she picked out which ones she wants me to send her. DD joined us for part of the time, so we had lots of laughs trying to figure out mystery people (unlabeled photos), trying to see details with a magnifying glass and a jeweler's loupe, and just seeing some of the stupid things in the pictures. For instance, my mother had a skunk coat when she was in her 20s. It was a knee-length, black fur coat that just happened to be made of skunk fur. Nope, no smell. Here's my mother wearing the coat and my father in something a little more sensible. Then when the kids came along, that coat went out for Halloween more than once. Ha ha! Just add a gorilla or monster mask and we were SET!