Another 10 days has flown by…. The fall leaves are starting to thin out and there is a touch of winter in the air. I find it all very refreshing.

I did go back to the beach this past weekend to see the family and to work for a few days. It was nice to visit the beach but even better to come back here to the mountains. I do wish I could bring my job here. Its hard to find a job you like going to with people you like working with.

Construction on the cabin is coming along. The guys are putting down the sub floor today who knows they may start the walls this week.

I haven’t been keeping up with the blogg lately I have just been too busy with “things” to hassle with blogging via dial up but I have moved from my 19ft camper into a small house that belongs to a snow bird friend of mine and it has satellite internet, not the best but better than dial up!!

Things here have been good. The weather last week was warm but the fall color has been just great. It has been many years since I have seen Fall. This past week, thanks to the mild temperatures, I put the top down on the Jeep and cruised a little of the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was hard not looking up as I drove. I love the way sun light shines through the trees causing the leaves to have a glow about them. I also LOVE it when a breeze comes by and it rains leaves; it’s just so magical. I love fall!!!!

Things are coming along on the cabin. They poured the footings this week. One thing done a week, I guess that’s progress. What can you say? My builder is working on another house soooo

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My friend Tim and I finished splitting the wood pile, a great accomplishment. Now I get to stack all this wood. Yea for me I get to be warm three times!!!

Skunk. I thought that I knew what a skunk smelled like after all I have driven by many unfortunate skunks that had been struck by cars; they stink. Well…… last night I learned that when your dog gets sprayed by a skunk it smells worse than you can ever know. When the girl dog came in last night just as I was eating my dinner my olfactory nerve was struck by a odor so noxious that it brought tears to my eyes. Needless to say dinner was over and the girl had a bath there and then! Not that it did a whole lot of good but had to do something. This morning I bathed her again this time in vinegar. It helped for a while but after she “helped” split wood and then ran round the yard for awhile and laid in the sun she stunk again. I bathed her again this afternoon. While at EMT class this evening I asked the folks who live here how they deal with skunk smell the consensus is use tomato juice followed up with a concoction of baking soda, vinegar and dawn dish soap. Tomorrow I will try their recommendations.

I saw my first lady bug today. Not the first one I have seen all summer but the first one of the fall lady bug blitz. These are not really lady bugs per say. These are the orange and black , real lady bugs are red and black. Every fall they congregate in my camper I am usually not here, this is my first full fall in Willis, but every spring I clean thousands of dead lady bugs out of my camper. They are attracted to the white siding of the camper and the warm interior but unbeknownst to them it is not a safe place to be; I spray the camper for bugs when I close it up for the final time in the fall.

Fall colors are starting to really stand out. The reds and yellows against the deep greens with bright afternoon sun light filtering through is just amazing. Ahhhh. I love the cool mornings and warm afternoons that fall brings and the night time sky is so deeply black that the stars just shine like bright clear white light. It could stay this way all year for me.

Today I have spent the day doing as little as possible. This past week has been very busy. My builder started on the house, I have been splitting and stacking firewood, I helped place a dog who needed a new home, spent a few days explaining to Amerlink why I needed my logs delivered, went to EMT class, took a friend to the doctor and I worked a little with the church yard sale (there must have been a million of those this weekend). Tomorrow starts a new week and hopefully Amerlink will deliver the logs tomorrow morning as promised; that would sure be a good start to what will most likely be another busy week.