The Second Day of Autumn

Look what I woke up

to this morning .....

We might get a bit of rain

tomorrow, although the sun

is making it's way out right

 now.   I am so glad to see

 the HOT weather go.

Yesterday it was 95 degrees

and just not fun.  Today they

say it will be 84 and tomorrow

 only 70, but the rest of the

week will be in the 80's

with a couple of days back

 to 90, but at least not 95!

   I have lots of outside work to

 do including planting these

(and more) .....

.....with the help from my

dear Pansy.....

Oh, how I wish she could help me !

Speaking of help....I keep

forgetting to mention that

Cheryl and I saw the movie

 "The Help" last week.

I hadn't read the book, but

the movie was FANTASTIC!

All 4 main characters were

wonderful, but for me the

actresses that played Minnie

(Octavia Spencer) and Hilly

(Bryce Dallas Howard) were

just too much!  Loved them

both, well not Hilly's character,

 but both of their acting was

superb in my opinion !   The

fashions and sets were perfect

 and the colors and patterns were

such a treat for the eyes.

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Yesterday I had a nice visit with my old neighbors

from 1999.   I have seen them here and there over

 the years, and we always said we would get together,

 but never quite made it happen.  They are so very kind

and easygoing and said to just call whenever I had

time...so Wednesday I called to say how about Thursday

and we settled on Friday.  I can't believe I forgot my

camera.   Their yard is absolutely enchanting!

Their house is on a mountain and they have tiered

and tiered the property with tons of rocks, stone and

cement and then planted 100's of trees, shrubs,

and flowers....figs, olives, apples, roses, jasmine vines,

wisteria, lilacs, veggies...the list goes on and on.  There is

 a water shortage in that area so they were only watering

the veggies.  Unfortunately the roses may be gone next

year.  They also had a waterfall that went from the top

of the property to the bottom, but had no water in it.

Too much to run right now so I will have to go over

this winter after a good rain to see.  :o)  And the view

 of the lake....oh my goodness!  I had kinda forgotten

 how gorgeous the view really is, but the drive into town

is 25 minutes and just too far away for me to want to live

 up that way again.  After my 3 1/2 hour visit I headed

 over to Cheryl's (she is up that way too).  Since I am

 rarely in that area I had called her earlier to see if

 she wanted to watch the last episode of All My Children

 together.  She has watched it for all 40 years, since

she was a teenager! 

Above photo from ABC Studios

All My Children logo as in the "New Decade" credits

 (December 22, 2010-present)

 I haven't watched AMC since the

early 80's, but with it's end, I decided to watch this

last week.  It was so fun, but almost sad to see all the

 old characters that were still on.  Not sad for them,

but for me...thinking about how young they were back

 then and although they all looked great now, that meant

 me too, growing older and thinking about how young I

 was back then!  Pretty emotional.  The whole week's

worth of episodes were quite nice....all ran along at a nice

 clip (not dragged out) until Friday's episode!  

A disappointment for sure.

They claim they will be bringing back the show on

the internet, but already some of the actors have found

other jobs so it will not be the same.  Of course, they left

 the show with a cliffhanger !  Total bummer!   I was so

hopeful that they would continue along the path of this

past week and end it positively instead of with

a literal bang!   Oh well, I should know better with

the soaps!  I am glad though that I watched the last

 week and wish all the actors the very best in whatever

 they all choose do in the future.   :o)

Thanks for the memories!

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The sun, with all those

planets revolving around

it and dependent on it,

can still ripen a bunch

of grapes as if it had

 nothing else in the

universe to do.

--- Galileo

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HAPPY THE DAY AFTER

THE FIRST DAY OF FALL !