geese

I have not been outside with a camera at the right time yet, but perhaps this spring I can get some pictures. I've discovered that the new house is directly under a goose flyway. I've seen geese flying north twice now, once in the morning and once just before dusk, and I've heard them several times. I send goose-greetings to everyone north of me.

atoning

Mizfit reminds me that at Yom Kippur I should be atoning for wronging others. Every year I have the problem that I can't think of anyone I have wronged. There must be some! But I can't recognize any, so I can't apologize. Unless I am a saint on earth, which seems unlikely, this is a flaw.

This year, head down in piles of boxes, Rosh Hashanah and the equinox just blew past me. Thanks, Miz, for making me notice the calendar.

some slight progress

August 26:

September 15:

not a weed

My first garden surprise from this house:

The vine rambling over the pile of old wood turns out to be autumn clematis, a favorite of mine.

fence

My fence is in. At last I can let the dog out the back door without a harness and a tie-out. One less small time-wasting chore.

relaxing

I have a whole day off today, after working through the summer taking days off only to deal with selling, buying, and moving, which were not exactly days of freedom. (Although I did tell the movers, when they said, at the end of a ten hour day of unloading for them, that I must be exhausted, "Well, I don't usually spend the whole day standing around doing nothing.")

I plan to take a lesson from Belle: