Fall is here

Cooler temperatures have arrived and we are enjoying them. It makes yard clean up a lot easier if one is not sweltering in 80 plus degree heat and humidity. Still, the first frost hasn't come yet, so I stocked up on kleenex last night. Between Christina's sore throat, Mark & Tim's allergies, and my occasional sniffles and gunk in my eyes, we are fighting over the last tissue box. I loaded up with six (boxes of tissues, that is).

I went to Cub Foods yesterday in our neighborhood. They didn't have power, but were operating on a couple generators. But due to the outage, lights were out every other row, and they weren't selling meat, dairy or frozen goods. It was a little eerie inside. Last night Christina wanted to shop for clothes for the homecoming dance, so after that we stopped at a Cub near her shopping area.

On our route around town today, we noticed clean-up had begun, but there were other trees that we hadn't seen before that were down/unearthed. It will take a while to get everything back to normal, and of course those large trees can't be replaced overnight.

Lots of firewood is available all around town, however. We have a gas fireplace, but we do take some wood camping. Too bad we've only gone once this summer! Anybody want some branches/logs/leaves/stumps?

Till next time,


Suzi