Re: Hello Fall - As the Leaves Turn - Page 9

lynnie61 · ‎04-28-2010

Welcome Fall. My favorite season. I'm so happy to live in PA where we get all seasons. Enough to enjoy, but enough change to see all seasons.

@Sassy7356 Thank you for the beautiful photos and starting the new seasonal thread. I hope you and your mom are doing better.

I was supposed to meet a friend for breakfast, but she needed to cancel today. Her husband isn't feeling well.

I need to grocery shop today for fresh produce and essentials. We finally have some rain. It's so welcomed, everything is getting brown. I hope we can still get some brilliant fall colors, but not sure. They say it will be less brilliant here due to the dry summer.

@PA Mom-mom Please join us often, this is my favorite thread, lots of wonderful posters here. 🍁😉

Sassy7356 · ‎11-09-2013

@just bee wrote:
@Sweet Caroline 1 wrote:
@just bee wrote:

@just bee, I love this precious little one! I think he loves me too! Happy Fall
@Sweet Caroline 1

@Sassy7356 has posted this:

Have you ever seen a Corgi that didn't greet you with a smile?

@just bee I love the sign and should get it.

Sassy7356 · ‎11-09-2013

@AnikaBrodie wrote:

@Sassy7356

We just want to say "thank you" for another beautiful fall thread. Each day I look forward to opening the forum pages and want you to know how much the graphics and daily posts lift our spirits. You are the "heart and soul" of this wonderful thread. Thank you for your efforts on behalf of all posters. We truly appreciate you.

Love and hugs to your mother, you, Jason and the dogs. I hope things are progressing well in her recovery and in yours. Prayers continue for your family.

@AnikaBrodie Thank you for your kind comments. I know I did the new thread a bit early but with my Mom not being good I decided to do it. Now, she wants me to call her every 2-3 hours. We saw her on Saturday and could see she had declined. She would nap and then wake up and ask about people that had been gone for many years and about my Dad. It's sad to see but I hope she passes peacefully in her sleep.

For me, bruising is lightening on my right side. Last night was the first since my fall that I could roll over on that side.

Sassy7356 · ‎11-09-2013

@PA Mom-mom wrote:
One of my favorite poems, and a picture of our white oaks planted by my dad 60 years ago.

To Autumn
John Keats
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

@PA Mom-mom Very nice.

Sassy7356 · ‎11-09-2013

@San Antonio Gal wrote:
I will miss the green grass and flowers of spring/summer, along with the longer days of daylight.

Not looking forward to the dreariness of winter and darkness coming at 5 pm daily.

@San Antonio Gal As much as I love Fall I don't look forward to it getting dark so early, too.

Sassy7356 · ‎11-09-2013

@mousiegirl wrote:
@Sassy7356 We don't get really cold weather until Winter, so our Fall is Indian Summer, my favorite weather. Leaves won't drop for months when the weather is cool.

@mousiegirl We have Indian Summer, warm days and cool nights. It has to be my favorite weather. The leaves have started changing color here.

Sassy7356 · ‎11-09-2013

@hullie wrote:
@Sassy7356
Thank you so much for organizing our thread each season, I really appreciate it!

I thought of your mom when I was visiting my sister this weekend. It was not a good visit as she was not doing well. With good intentions I visited about times gone by as she remembers those times but can't remember what she just had for lunch. I think it made her sadder. She even had tears for awhile and none of us could figure out why she was upset. I'm still having trouble shaking it off. I am sure it deeply troubled you with your mom's latest fall. We do the best we can do.

@hullie That's all we can do is to do our best. My Mom cried a good amount of time we were there and I hear it in her voice when we speak by phone. I just don't know what to talk about that won't cause that to happen. The majority of time she is searches for words and names when we talk.

Sassy7356 · ‎11-09-2013

@UpNorthGorgy wrote:
@Sassy7356 10% color here, N. WI. and 50% in N.Minn. Trips to the N. Shore started. They started putting up Bentlyville in Duluth. Last year they were vandalized before opening so hope all goes well.

Thankyou for taking the time putting together the lovely color show. So good I will look again.🍁🍂

@UpNorthGorgy I live in Minnesota and just started with the changing of colors. We use to plan a trip to the North Shore every Fall but haven't been able to do so the last few years.

Sassy7356 · ‎11-09-2013

@mousiegirl wrote:
@hullie wrote:
@mousiegirl wrote:
@hullie wrote:
Today I brushed Bijou good. He still loves me, ha. Grilled a hamburger and roasted some cherry tomatoes to go with it. Cleaned out a desk drawer, it is so boring going through papers. Got my step ladder out and cleaned the top shelf out of three of my cupboards. I don't use those things, that is why they're so high up. I sent pictures to nieces to see if they needed anything and will donate all they don't want. Now I need to water my flowers and then fix supper. PBS has three good shows on one right after the other tonight, nothing better than a British murder mystery.

@hullie You were brave to get onto a ladder, I will never nor DH, will have to hire someone. I fell off enough to now know that I can't use them.

I have been collecting items for donation, what I know DD won't want nor can use, which isn't that much, lol, but every little bit of donating helps ease the clutter.

We are selling my SVU for demolition and getting paid $2,000 for it. I will never drive it again, already fell as I was stepping into it, and slipping off, too high for my bad knees now. I don't like DH's car, way too low to the ground so is difficult for me to get into with the knees, but that is what I will have to drive.
@mousiegirl
I bought a ladder on qvc that has a bar I can hang onto as I climb and I go very slow. That is partly why I an getting rid of the stuff, I don't need to be climbing ladders. I recognize my vulnerability on my last two falls and I am going through the process of whittling down my stuff. I have a lot I have accumulated over the years and when I have gone through it all I will start over and eliminate more. It is too bad your daughter lives so far away. Have you and your husband thought about selling your place and moving closer to her? I know there are other places I would like to live but where I am now is closest to what family I have left.

@hullie First, I would never step foot in Texas, way too hot for me. Secondly, DD will not remain in Texas, has wanted to leave since she got there, too hot and buggy.

She is thinking Oregon and that is only about twelve driving hours away.

She is driving the 24 hours from Texas to here, sleeping here tomorrow night, then leaving Tuesday for a rodeo three hours away to work in the photography area, so not around the horses, think that is sad because that is what she wants, to be back riding, etc.

She will drive back here after that work is done, and spend a week or so, she said, but who knows. I want her to, given our ages, and I have a lot to discuss with her for after I am gone, and show her.

I bet Bijou looks spiffy!