How in the hell did fall get here so soon!!

While lying on the ground I thought,

I gotta give squirrel's credit.

I wouldn't scamper that high!

Here it is, a week into October. We in the not-so-great-white-north are in the midst of quandary... the calender says October 7th, the temperature reads, 81 degrees!

We're kind of like turkeys wondering around the farm in the rain going, "What the hell is hitting me in the bean?" Oh, by the way... turkeys drowning from looking upwards to figure out the rain, is an old wives's tale/rural legend.

My brother's friend raises them. Usually the head for the bird barn/shelter. They're not keen on getting wet when they can help it, just like us. Who knew!

The heat wave is also chock-full of high humidity... yeah, that's always fun for those of us with compromised lungs. I'm just really happy I procrastinated taking my air conditioner out. As this has been going on for well over a week, I would have re-installed it that's for sure. They're predicting 70's until late next week! This is nuts!

Still, the trees are almost completely peaked for color and we did have a real hard rain a couple of nights ago with a lot of wind, that blew most of the fully colored trees bare.

I am anxious to have a good hard freeze so I can separate my irises and lilies etc. if I do it now, it will cause stress and I could lose a lot. It's been bad enough losing half of them during these last couple winters.

The lack of snow for insulation really did a number on them. I've got to try and save as many as I can. I'm also looking forward to planting seeds of flowers from my Alaska trip. The ground has to be cool when you plant them, and if they can survive in abundance there, they should have no problems here.

I guess I should get back to work, I finished all my dishes, am halfway through my laundry and procrastinating here on the computer. I had walked in here to get my slippers... that was an hour ago. Go figure...