All posts by ruthsoaper

Game Day

Reflections, Ruby

Football season has begun. Last year Ruby decided she did not like to be around while I watch football since I tend to get a bit loud when I’m rooting for our Detroit Lions. She will generally go retreat to the bedroom until things (I) settle down.

As the week two game started yesterday Ruby disappeared into the bedroom. She did come out during halftime, and as my husband and I sat in our recliners waiting for the game to resume Ruby wanted to play. She first brought her tennis ball (which is her favorite) but quickly changed her mind.

She then went and got her football which she rarely plays with.

Somehow, she seemed to know that it was football time. It baffles me – how did she know? I did toss the ball for her a few times before the game came back on. Then she went back to the bedroom while my husband and I finished watching our Lions crush the Chicago Bears 52-21.

GO LIONS!

Monthly Inspiration

Inspiration, Reflections

Hello and Welcome!

I suspect I’m in the minority when I say I’m sad to see summer end. Mostly because the cooler temperatures have caused my time in the pond to come to an end. Also, because when autumn arrives, winter (my least favorite season) is just around the corner. For now, I am going to live in the moment and enjoy the many things there are to love about autumn. I hope you do the same.

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” –Samuel Butler

“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” –Jane Hirshfield

“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” –Elizabeth Lawrence

“Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.” –Siobhan Vivian

“May you Fall in love with October
and all the beauty it brings,
May your life be as colorful as
the turning of the leaves,
On each blessed autumn day.”
—Charmaine J. Forde

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Tuesday Morning at the Farm

Bees, garlic, Reflections, Ruby, Sunflowers, The Farm

It was a cool, crisp, fall-like morning despite being late August.

I visited the gardens and took a few pictures before getting started on my task for the morning.

The bees were all over the sunflowers.

This bird was perched on a goldenrod in the back field.

The above picture was my workstation for the morning.

These are the tools I used.

Cleaning the garlic was my task.

The sights, the sounds, the whole atmosphere was beautiful.

The sky was deep blue with fluffy clouds drifting by.

I couldn’t have asked for better working conditions.

Ruby stopped by to remind me to take time out to play.

It took about 75 minutes to clean that bucket full of garlic, including tossing the ball a couple times for Ruby. (I neglected to take a picture of the clean bulbs.) Conditions were equally as pleasant this afternoon when I finished cleaning the second bucket full of garlic. What a relief it is to have that job finished.

I am still canning tomatoes (31 quarts so far), dehydrating eggplant and freezing peppers. We have been so blessed with a bountiful harvest this year.

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