Sunday, October 20, 2019

October This-And-Thats

With no real subject to write about and knowing I've not posted much of anything aside from the creek in some time, it's time again to sit down and start writing about whatever comes to mind.  You know the drill, now here I go!
  • I got sick for the first time this season, starting over two weeks ago.  I was so miserable, and for so long.  I think it was just a real nasty cold virus, but it may have been a bit of the flu - even though I got my flu shot less than a month before.  (Some say that's what got me sick, but I think they use a dead virus for the vaccine.  What do you think?)  I was off work for a whole week and it's been lingering in the week since.  At least my boss felt sorry enough for me that I wasn't required to do the mandatory overtime this past week.  Yay.
  • I was poking my nose around in blogger and I just happened to notice that Delcatto's comment on my last post was my 1,000th comment!  Doesn't mean much unless you're a numbers geek, and I'm sure about half the comments were me.  That's my random fact for today, I guess.
  • The trees are turning colors and some leaves are falling already.  It seems odd in places because some trees are almost bare while others are still green.  Some trees just drop their leaves earlier than others.  Also, it's time to clean up the yard and gardens, which I have a small start on but hopefully will have more done by the time this weekend is over.  This is not my favorite time of year, it is the time of impending winter to me.  I much prefer spring and the time of impending summer!
  • We just put in the order for our next quarter cow.  This will be the fourth time we've done this, and the meat seems to last us a little over a year.  It's nice to have all that meat in the freezer, and it's cheaper in the long run.  Plus, we enjoy it more than the meat from the grocery store.  Lots more, it's just a higher quality meat.
  • Without much else going on, I did enjoy my last 3 posts.  I enjoyed the walks and getting outside, and trying to get good pictures.  I'm sorry to have stretched it out a bit, but I was busy/had nothing else to really write about anyway/was in no particular hurry - take your pick.  I actually feel a little guilty if I don't post anything for too long, but it can be hard when not much is happening.  Even this post was pretty much put together over several days of wondering what I would write.
I can't think of anything else to say right now.  I guess that's why I've not posted anything recently.  Oh well, no news is good news, I guess.

7 comments:

delcatto said...

Yay! 1000.
I haven’t posted lately as busy with work and when home just too tired. I may make up for it this coming weekend.
I have to admit I like autumn but the nights are drawing in too quickly and the days are drab and drizzly. But clocks go back and Halloween coming up which I do enjoy.

Scoakat said...

Don't get me wrong, I do like many aspects of autumn, I just like spring better. And I've been liking Halloween more an more the last several years. Maybe because we have so many more young trick and treaters growing up in the neighborhood. I bought a new mask this year to wear when I answer the door, plus a couple other tricks, but I'll save that for a Halloween post. What do you plan on doing for Halloween?

delcatto said...

Read and listen to some ghost stories, perhaps a suitable hokey old Hammer Horror movie and attempt to put the light up red horns on the kitties again. I most definitely won't be dancing sky clad around the Town tree bathed in moonlight!

delcatto said...

That should be Rowan tree...dancing around the town tree if one existed would definitely see me arrested.

Blue Witch said...

I hate autumn.

I hate the commercialism and encouraging small children to demand treats with menaces from strangers of Hallowe'en.

I hate the current way of the world and most of its inhabitants and have nothing interesting to say either.

I am a Grumpy Old Woman, and, d'you know what? I'm proud of it!

delcatto said...

Keep up the grumpiness BW!
We've learned to draw the curtains and ignore the front door after a couple of years of teenage pests wanting sweet and money with Halloween as the excuse to do this. MR James audio stories on you tube are worth listening to.

Scoakat said...

Well, those are two interesting mental images - I could have gone without Delcatto's!

When talking to different people they do seem to view Halloween differently. I think for me a lot of it is where we are, the neighborhood and all the young kids makes it fun for us.

Now, we just bought 500 pieces of candy and need to figure out how to hide it from ourselves for a few days!