2nd Week, First Day

The rain came and went overnight and the clouds remained past midday. We slept in as planned. I used the cloudy weather to complete the wood-stacking job. It’s done and the 2 piles of wood just fit in the expanded storage bin. Karen said she didn’t understand what I was doing so here is a pictorial.

I took this:

And this:

And this is the result:



You can't tell it easily by the picture but the wood stack is 2-deep.
Now I will hang a tarp around it to keep the rain and snow out.

We lunched at Dot’s again today and then went on a short adventure down random one-lane country roads that branched off route 9. It was still partly cloudy and so I didn’t take pictures at every pretty spot but these roads were the most colorful we’ve seen. That means peak color has now come to us.

Penny wasn’t feeling great so she stayed in the car and I jumped out to take pictures.

Since the Columbus Day holiday weekend begins tomorrow and the area will be packed with leaf peepers clogging the road and buying up the apple supply we decided to buy apples today to bring back with us for the kids and ourselves. We also got an apple pie right out of the oven. The pie was too hot to handle when we got it. That was our dinner. It was still warm when we had a piece 2 hours later.

3 years ago when we were here Penny tried to buy a pumpkin pie from one of the local churches holiday bake sale. We got there too late to get one and ended up with a good apple pie. This year we will try again. We are planning to get up early tomorrow and go have pumpkin pancakes at the Cup and Saucer. Then we will head down to Jacksonville, VT in our quest for a pumpkin pie. We will be early enough to get one this year (if they still make them). The winery we like is also there so we will visit that, too. Beyond that we have no definite plans. It’s supposed to be sunny so, with peak color all around, we likely will be going off the main road looking for good pictures on the small side roads.

We may start sharing the cabin tomorrow with some of Debbie’s friends. We are not certain they are coming but tonight may be our last night with the cabin all to ourselves.