In our opinion, the weather this time of year is near perfection. The angle of the sun, the temperature, the crispness of the air makes it just marvelous. An industrious gopher is having a blast cultivating the lower meadow.
We have had some slight rain and the ground is very easy to turn now. Bob is happy to feel better and is industrious, as well. He is putting the quail fencing that used to surround the front porch that is now our laundry room and dining room out the back door for an enclosure for Maggie. She usually goes everywhere with us, but on a rare occasion she needs a safe place to hang out. She is quite the jumper, so it needed to be a foot taller than before to make sure she stays put. We also don't want uninvited guests to get in. It will be lovely when he is finished.
The bent willow furniture needs a new home too, so I think we will put gravel and flagstone down where he is making the fence. We can work around budget constraints with that rather than a concrete pad, plus I think it makes for a little more pizazz. Right now we are using our ez-up for a cover just to keep the rain off. A couple of boring beetles made holes in three of the legs on the furniture, so as soon as the leaves fall off the willow down by the creek we will repair them.
Our wonderful friends, Polly and Phil, came to spend the night on Wednesday and brought us a fine cast iron Franklin stove for the patio. One of their neighbors had cast it aside and they rescued it. After contemplation Polly decided it didn't suit her lovely garden's plan and thought of us. We are delighted to be the recipient of such a fine item. They hauled it down to us when they came along with a beautiful floral arrangement for my natal day. We talked and ate and drank and talked and ate and drank the night away. We have been friends for so long and are getting so old and forgetful that we can tell the same stories and laugh like we have never heard it before. It is marvelous to have friends like that. The safety of old friends is a wonderful gift, friends you can tell your deepest, darkest secrets to and know they will be in safe keeping, even if because of declining memory. In Brownies the girls were taught to "Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver the other gold." We are truly blessed.
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