Preparing for Winter

The frost got the flowers in my window box

Putting the toys away

We've had a most beautiful Fall here in the Adirondack Mountains. The weather has been comfortably cool and crisp, almost too warm for soccer and football weather. Speaking of soccer our girls high school soccer team had a very successful season. They beat Fort Ann in the semi finals and only lost by 1 goal in the last 2 seconds of the championship game. Our grand neice Heather Nelson was one of the outstanding players on the team. Congratulations Heather, we are now looking forward to cheering you as you play on the varsity basketball team.

Getting ready for the winter months here in North Country of New York State is quite a process. Summer furniture must be moved to the barn, picnic tables stood up against a tree, the camper must be winterized and covered, wood cut, split, and piled in the woodshed, some plants are brought in for the winter, the flower garden attended to, leaves raked, antifreeze in the car radiators, the kayaks, paddle boat, and sailboat have to be dragged from the edge of the pond and put in the shed and barn, the bikes put away and then the snow blower has to be checked out to see if it's ready for that first snow storm. Despite all this, we still love it up here in the great north country and look forward to the snow, warm fires in our woodstove, lots of friends stopping by or coming for a visit, playing games or just chatting. Winter is a good time to read those good books and of course that's when I really get into my local history and genealogy research.