the leaves are falling

 As the leaves continue to fall from the trees to ready themselves for the heavy ice and snow of the long winter, we too made our preparations. The trailer came home and is now situated in its regular berth. The water system has been winterized (including the toilet - good catch Carm), and all the food and other detrus has been removed and distributed around the house. Every horizontal surface has something on it and it’s driving me crazy already!

I’m trying my hardest not to be sad that autumn is over. Tonight I’m making a comforting winter supper of Pot roast, yorkshire pudding, roasted potatoes squash and brussels sprouts,  and we’ll sit at the table with candlelight and music and pretend that it’s awesome and that everything is just fine. We’ll skirt the topic of the pandemic and not talk about how lonely the winter will be without friends around the table with us. I might wear a sequin top to further the masquerade.

We left Kirsten’s yesterday after an adventure in getting hitched. The trailer had sunk into the ground and the legs wouldn’t extend high enough to let the truck under. OMG! Luckily Kirsten was there so dashed off to get a shovel so Carm could dig a ditch for the wheels to help us get under. He got the truck lined up well - at a weird angle - then backed in carefully. The hitch hit the pin perfectly and clicked together. Whew. 

Now the next challenge - back up through the small gap between the shed and the diesel tanks. Since we were at an angle he had to reposition the trailer and did so perfectly. We were soon backed up and on our way! Even as our hands fell from waving farewell, we were talking about next summer. Oh so lovely to have something wonderful to look forward to :-)

We stopped at the municipal dump station, then were home backing down the laneway. No yelling! I can’t remember the last time we had an argument during this perilless task. We were no sooner parked when gardening clothes were donned and we headed to the garlic bed to plant. It took around 1 ½ hours to get the 134 cloves planted and covered in plastic. A job well out of the way.

I should mention that yesterday was absolutely glorious, a quick revisit to summer to tide us through the winter. I think it got up to 24C! Today is cloudy and cold.

We had 3 nights at Kirsten’s, one on my own, the other 2 with Carm. He had to go back home to do a heart stress test, and then of course there was golf… No worries though, between visiting with Kirsten during the day, puttering around the camper and playing with my awesome vacuum, and supper with all of them, the time without Carm flashed by.

Did I mention that we almost burned down Shawn’s giant red shed? No? Well, I’ll leave it at that. I did learn something about electricity though: if a join of two extension cords gets wet it can cause smoke and sparks at the electricity end of the wire… 

"In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.”

~Alexander Smith