This is the end of summer. We officially enter the season of autumn today. But it has been deceptively warm these last few weeks. Aside from a scattered shower of rain and some windy days it has been unusually warm and soft. I keep expecting the weather to turn and when it doesn't I enjoy my days wondering when this beautiful weather will end. Nightly Teapot and I have been taking the dogs for a walk and then resting after on the deck in the balmy evening darkness. Last night we sat out till almost 10:30 and I was wearing a t-shirt and had no problem and felt no cold. Though the trees are mostly bare there is a beauty in the season that you just can't deny. This Sunday is BC Rivers Day and Teapot and I will be celebrating the river as we usually do by taking our canoe down the river and hopefully our girls will come too. It is a good way to end such a beautiful season.
I have been diligently working on my ceiling tiles. I try to wood burn two a day. Each tile takes about an hour to finish. Today I am burning and prepping two tiles which need to fit around the light socket. I hope to have them finished before lunch so that I can spend the afternoon weaving. The ceiling looks awesome as each night I add two more tiles to it. If I am able to keep going I will finish the tiles somewhere around Christmas. It will feel so good to get this job done. I don't know if it is the season or what is causing it but there is a definite nesting instinct that I can't seem to thwart.
Meanwhile, apples are still a priority but the dent in the numbers is becoming increasingly obvious. I'm now down to one last box of apples and have used every possible container in which to keep apple juice. So now I'm bumming containers from friends and family. Two or three more days and I should have the apples done. Teapot had to take some to the composter as the older ones were starting to go bad. Yesterday, I was sitting in the living room having some well earned lunch when the dogs started barking outside quite ferociously. I went outside and discovered that all the animals were on high alert as the alpacas and llama were sending up freak-out signals (they were bellowing). This is usually an indication that there is some great danger nearby. And they were right... a black bear decided that the apples that Teapot had chucked in the composter were just what he needed. But it didn't take long with the dogs barking and the llama and alpacas bellowing and me yelling for him to decide that there were easier pickings elsewhere. I was glad to see the back end of him. In short order he had moved on, much to my relief.
With winter just around the corner the bears will be no problem in the not too distant future and like them hibernating could be a good project for those cold winter months.
Well that's it for today...once again my mind can't think of anything worthy of blogging about so you'll just have to put up with the weather/season report... I'm off to wood burn and breath in the fumes of wood smoke then I'm going to weave.....
See y'all tomorrow.... enjoy this last day of summer in your neck of the woods.
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