Hi, everyone!
Two weeks ago, Grandma and I went to Corbett’s Glen Nature Park. I really like to go there the end of October! This year, because of the bad virus, the town of Brighton has been trying to restrict the number of visitors at Corbett’s Glen. Most of the usual places to park nearby are blocked off! We got Grandpa to drop us off and pick us up. There were new fences up on the trail by Allens Creek. The bad virus wasn’t hurting the creek bank, but the number of visitors straying from the trail was!
When I saw the fences, I was afraid we wouldn’t be able to get close to Postcard Falls. I was really happy to see the path to the shoreline just below the falls was open! The reason I like to go to Corbett’s Glen this time of year is the salmon! They are swimming up Allens Creek to spawn, and sometimes I can see one jumping up the falls. I saw two fisherman catch big salmon and let them go!
The other reason I like going to Corbett’s Glen this time of year is the fall leaf colors! There were pretty ones along the creek, and around the wetlands, and in the woods! After our visit, we waited for Grandpa to pick us up at the top of Glen Road, just outside the tunnel entrance to the park. That’s right below a very busy highway and just above the trestle with the main railroad line on it. Corbett’s Glen is very peaceful, even so close to major sources of traffic noise!
When we got home, I could see the leaf colors in our own yard. There were also a lot of fallen leaves! Grandma and Grandpa got out to rake the yard and made me my first Fairport leaf pile of the season!
We decided to go to the bay on Saturday and Sunday. Before we went on Saturday, I helped Grandma make a new batch of party mix. Uncle Steven had returned an empty container, so it was time to fill them all up again!
When we got to the bay, there were lots more leaves down there, too! Grandma and I took a walk back up the road to see the fall colors in the orchard. There were lots of pretty sights!
Later on Saturday, Grandma finished the jigsaw puzzle that Nancy-san and Moose-san and Tilly and I had been working on. I was feeling a little floppy, so I did my headstand asana that Averil-san taught me. Then I helped Grandpa remove the clothes dryer from the utility room. The last time Grandma used it, it started making funny noises. Grandpa tried to fix it, but the dryer was so old that it wasn’t even listed for replacement parts anymore! Grandma told me that they bought that dryer for Uncle Bill’s diapers when he was a baby, so it deserved to be retired!
On Sunday, it was sunny for a little while, so Grandma and I took another walk to see the colorful leaves.
Grandpa has been working down in the boathouse a lot. He finally got approval and funding for the repairs to the high water damage to our shoreline! Before that work can be done, the inside foundation of the boathouse and all around the deck foundation have to be clear. He sawed off the decking extension and pulled out the water intake system. The water level is really low now, so there’s no water in the boathouse at all!
We stayed over until Monday because the new clothes dryer was being delivered then! The delivery people used a carry strap between them to take out the old dryer and bring in the new one! I helped Grandma cut up the packaging the new dryer came in, so it could be recycled. The styrofoam beads had a static charge and stuck to everything! I made sure to save some big pieces of cardboard so Joe-san and Nancy-san could make jigsaw puzzle sandwiches for any puzzle they want to number on the back! The new dryer is really big inside!
The bad virus made lots of people change their plans for Halloween and trick or treating! Our church took part in a Black Kids Lives Matter trunk or treat event, where Pastor Valerie and Chloe the Church Dog handed out treat bags of candy. LaVache and LIC and I helped Grandma and LaVache’s Grandma make some of the bags. The church trunk was decorated like The Princess and the Frog movie. Grandma found leaping frog toys to put in every bag with the candy! Then it was Bill’s birthday, so we Facetimed to watch him open his presents. Aunt Emi and Karin Facetimed him from Japan, too!
Grandma and Grandpa did another lawn raking in Fairport and made my leaf pile even bigger! Frost was predicted over the weekend, so I made sure to say goodbye to my impatiens friends before we went to the bay. We had more leaves to rake there, too! Then we watched the blue moon rise. That’s the name for the second full moon to occur in a month, no matter what color it really is!
Grandma pulled out another jigsaw puzzle for us to solve! This one was a Jackson Pollock painting and the box said it was the world’s most difficult jigsaw puzzle! Grandma said it wasn’t nearly as hard as either Mount Fuji or Snow White without the Seven Dwarfs! We decided it didn’t even need to be numbered on the back! On Sunday morning, Grandma and I lit a candle of remembrance as part of the church on-line All Souls Day service. Then a cold rain started, so we came back to town.
Yesterday morning, when I got up, there was snow on the ground! Then the town came to pick up our first leaf pile! Today the snow has melted and tomorrow it’s supposed to get warm again! Most of my impatiens friends in the window box are still hanging on, despite a very cold night. Grandma says I’ll have another big leaf pile by the end of the week!
Love,
Lion-san
Jeanne, Do you remember giving us a Jackson Pollock puzzle like that years and years ago? We then used the full sized picture of the puzzle to make it. I do not know what happened to it when we moved to Woodland Pond. Possibly Bev took it or maybe we gave it away as we did with so much stuff. We are pretty sure we didn’t bring any puzzles here, at least we have not laid hands or eyes on them yet if we did bring any puzzles.
Grandma says she doesn’t remember giving you a puzzle like this one, but it sounds possible. It’s hard to keep track of everything when you move!
Busy Lion as always. La Vache is flattered to be included in one of his books. It was fun filling the candy bags. They were all given out!
You do have a lot of leaves!!! Sometimes having two houses is a lot of work!!
Congratulations on your new dryer…. the beginning of a new “aira”.
Love,
La Vache.
We are happy that you got so much done! It has been a pretty fall with all the leaves and there have been plenty of them! It was nice you discovered white impatiens.