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Oh such frollicking and merrymaking!
The apple harvest is almost over, but every day new surprises of delight thrust up from the earth or lean over the nearest branch. I have been eating fresh strawberries! Ones planted earlier this year have put forth their flowers and berries despite frosts, laughing at their success. Hawks and owls abound of late~ redtails especially. My apple pies are insanely good: many people have named them the best apple pie they've ever had.
Some sadness arises as one by one, our friends leave, harvest finished. Soon, Andy and I will be the only remaining workers at the orchard. But our friends the geese have begun laying eggs: eggs the size of my palm! And duck and chicken eggs nourish us as well.
The Pippin has been most annoying lately by waking me up in the middle of the night (a dozen nights or more now), with "gifts" of live mice for me to play with. The mouse runs around the bed squeeling; the cat runs around crashing into things trying to contain it; I run around with a towel or shirt, trying to catch it and toss it outside. Quite disturbing to the sleep cycle, obviously.
Oh! And the blackbird migrations: flocks of hundreds, thousands?, of redwing blackbird, grackle, and others sinuously paint the sky with mysterious forms that can be read as one reads tarot cards... but the secrets they speak of are more strange and wonderful.
I am hoping to post pictures of my Halloween costume soon. I hope everyone here is well! Much love from me!
The apple harvest is almost over, but every day new surprises of delight thrust up from the earth or lean over the nearest branch. I have been eating fresh strawberries! Ones planted earlier this year have put forth their flowers and berries despite frosts, laughing at their success. Hawks and owls abound of late~ redtails especially. My apple pies are insanely good: many people have named them the best apple pie they've ever had.
Some sadness arises as one by one, our friends leave, harvest finished. Soon, Andy and I will be the only remaining workers at the orchard. But our friends the geese have begun laying eggs: eggs the size of my palm! And duck and chicken eggs nourish us as well.
The Pippin has been most annoying lately by waking me up in the middle of the night (a dozen nights or more now), with "gifts" of live mice for me to play with. The mouse runs around the bed squeeling; the cat runs around crashing into things trying to contain it; I run around with a towel or shirt, trying to catch it and toss it outside. Quite disturbing to the sleep cycle, obviously.
Oh! And the blackbird migrations: flocks of hundreds, thousands?, of redwing blackbird, grackle, and others sinuously paint the sky with mysterious forms that can be read as one reads tarot cards... but the secrets they speak of are more strange and wonderful.
I am hoping to post pictures of my Halloween costume soon. I hope everyone here is well! Much love from me!