We didn't have an honest frost but it was frosty at 33 here. The bog was beautiful with a hazy sun shining through icy covered fir trees. That was a nice walk.
It's been a busy week. I had a bad scare with my dog Bear and still haven't figured out what was wrong with him--Monday morning he was lethargic and not at all himself (well who was he then?). I got very upset but had to take friends to the airport so getting him to the vet in a hurry wasn't going to be an option. When my walking partner showed up Bear rallied and was almost normal so I felt better leaving him for an hour & a half. When I got home from the airport he was better and now he seems pretty much back to normal. Very scary and I sill don't know what that was about, maybe he got into some poisonous, maybe he has some illness, who knows. It's very worrisome and I think I'll have to take him in one day soon to have him checked out. OH BOY! Blood tests! Urine sample! Lots of money spent! But I was devastated when he was ailing so I know I want to get this taken care of.
I went back to Plattsburgh later in the morning on Monday and had lunch with a good friend (I have no bad friends so that sounds redundant). Yesterday I worked in the Archives, that was good, then my friend (a good one) came for dinner and to finish cleaning my mud room. We started the project on Sunday and generated 5 contractors' bags of garbage/trash. Oh my how did I ever accumulate so much stuff??? We've now finished the downstairs, having purged in the library, pantry and mud room. On to the upstairs: the master bedroom/storage unit and 2 closets. That's a massive job that I've been putting off (and compounding) for years.
Later this afternoon I'll take the garbage to the dump (after a trip to the bank to get cash to pay for this) then am visiting with summer friends. They have a dog from the same breeder, he's a lovely male black Lab with way too much energy because he never gets to run. He's much like Bear in appearance and bounciness. The husband of this couple has dementia so it will doubtless be a sad-ish visit. He has his good days and his bad days, naturally.
I'm not planning to work in the thrift store today--feels like a day off from school, hooray. It's Bag Sale time, just before we change over from summer to winter stuff. Fill a bag for $5, come on everyone! I assume it will be a zoo and I just don't have the energy to be there for it. Saturday I'll only be there a short time, my friend is bringing his work crew to stack my firewood. I only bought 6 cords this year, I still have 2 cords of last year's wood in the wood shed. And with my new and improved insulation I'll probably only need to burn 1 cord. KIDDING! I expect to use 6 cords at least but I also expect to be much much warmer than ever before.
The trees are starting to turn, it's very subtle still but there are some oranges and yellows, a modest showing so far. Much debate, as always about what kind of year it will be for foliage. It's been a dry summer--will this mean muted colors? We always think that will be the case but somehow it ends up being spectacular and a wonderful showing.
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