THE TRIP WINDING DOWN --

--- AND THE END OF SUMMER ... OCTOBER 14 2013

I apologize for the tine between blogs, but don't really know where the time has gone.  For someone retired for 14 years I seem to have no time.  I actually wonder how I ever had time to go to work  I also have retired friends who say the same thing.  Must be universal, or else we are enjoying life to the fullest.  When you are busy doing all the things you love to do time does fly.  And we all seem to be busy doing the things we love to do.

But, enough for the rambling.  First the trip winding down.  The pics are from some of the things as we were seeing on our way back to Boston.  They are of Baccus Winery and Canyon Ste-Anne on the Beaupre Coast and Montmorency Falls on the Isle of Orleans.

Now for the end of summer.  

Bossman got our potatoes dug and the garden mowed off, ready to be plowed preparing it for spring.  I mentioned that I really didn't want a garden - I can no longer play in it and one of my favorite things was digging potatoes.  Every hill was a surprise.  Bossman plows them out - he has some kind of an attachment on his tractor - then just has to pick them up.  He refuses to do the fun part of digging first.  His loss.  He said he was still going to have a small garden - just the things he likes.  Good for him.

Now for the VERRRY best part.  For supper last night we had homemade meatloaf and creamed NEW potatoes and peas.  One of our very favorite meals.  There is nothing like creamed new potatoes and fresh (in this case frozen) peas. 

Once the garden is mowed off it signals the end of summer.  He was lucky he got the potatoes over the weekend as we are predicted to have rain every day until Friday, maybe even then.

I am preparing for the final festival push of the season.  Will be at the Wash. Co. fairgrounds for the next two weekends.  Then in November will be at Morgantown WV and finally end up the season in Columbus Ohio the weekend before Thanksgiving.

In between, right after returning from Morgantown, I will be setting up some of my pictures at the Schrader Center at Oglebay Park for their Christmas show and sale.  Will attend the artists reception, and then the sale will last until January 5th.  This coincides with the Festival of Lights at Oglebay - there will be bus-load after bus-load of sightseers, and one of the stops is the Center and their Christmas art display. 

In January I will remove any pictures that did not sell, and everything will be in storage for the remainder of the winter.  But do I slow down?  Guess again.

Will have a houseful for Thaksgiving, family and friends from everywhere.

Then the Saturday after Thanksgiving the family from Maine will be arriving for the first week of deer season.  Will be preparing for them, and making the giant kettle of Turkey noodle soup for lunch on Monday.  It has been a tradition for more than 35 years that on the first day of deer season we serve all the hunters (and now some of their spouses, and some of their kids with their Jr. licenses) turkey soup, sandwiches, and either brownies or black bottom cup-cakes.  The latter alternates from year to year, and oh! the stories we have heard over the years.

Once this is over it is prepare for Christmas, when we will again have family and friends from all over. When New Year's Even finally arrives I am in bed at 9 p.m.  So much for celebrating.

Well, had better get cracking.  Things to do.  Have a great week, regardless of the rain (it could be snow) and God Bless.