Daily Notes- October- the first.

A picture from our daily woods walk with Riley.  Trees falling down all by themselves.  Ferns turning brown.  You can see how thin and sparse the tree growth is here.  Nothing in the soil but acidic sand. No organic material unless you count the slowly composting trees that fall over.  In my Master Gardener studies this particular area has the worst organic rating in the topographical studies books we looked at for class homework.  Almost like gardening on an abandoned mall parking lot. My Master Gardener instructor just raised his eyebrows and said "hum, good luck???"

Went outside the borders of my house, the grocery, the library and the bank yesterday.  All the way to the movie theater to see Downton Abbey with my friend.  It was a very nice outing and we drove on the newly opened road near my house which ends directly at the corner of movie theater and Goodwill.  The other Goodwill (not my usual).  I believe developers will be building more housing out there--big suburban homes- on former navy base property.  There were a few confusing turns on the old base itself to get to the new road.  I will need to draw myself a map.

The Navy left behind a golf course, runway, base housing, old planes and what I believe is a vast underground intelligence compound.  Why can't the people living around the perimeter of the base make phone calls on their cell phones?   Yes, I feel, at times, like I should be wearing a tinfoil hat.

Today and tomorrow are HOUSE CLEANING days before the visit of our son.  I need to tackle the guest room first as I have used it as a place to store work in progress, cloth and Goodwill finds.  The bed itself is under all that.  But in order to clean that up--the stuff has to have some place to GO!!!. so....that is my first thing to do.  And then all the floors, bathrooms and the kitchen and dining room.

I think we might take the wooden dollhouse to Spindleworks- the art center for adults with developmental delays.  They might enjoy making things to go inside the house.  I will check and see if it's okay first.  My daughter thought she had a mom of two little girls who might want it. But it's too large.  All the furniture is at daughter's house.  So the house is empty.  I did enjoy it when the children were so much younger and our cat Buzzer used to sleep in the house- upstairs .  It was sweet to see his little face looking out the windows.  That was then...and now it's just a vacant house.  Needing a new set of eyes and hands to fill it.

But first-- to Town to pay the taxes on this house I do live in.  Then library to return a book and then grocery.  Then home to clean, sweep, dust and mop.  Son arrives Thursday evening.