Still Fall

I just realized that I have not blogged for a long time.  Guess I am spending too much time enjoying life and not missing the computer much.  It is still fall here and I do not even have any new pics to post.  Lots going on this fall though.  Since we got new Iphones, we have been using them for snaps and I have not downloaded any pictures!!!  Gotta get busy! Life has been happening though.  The mister has recovered finally from the hip replacement, and he played in a pool tournament this past weekend.  That is a sign that summer is over.  We have taken many day trips to the forest and the trees have been spectacular this past couple of weeks. I also went south of the border to Colorado with a buddy here for 4 days and we had gorgeous weather, but we also hit a wonderful yard sale in LaPorte, did all of the flea markets on south College, did the French Nest on Saturday when we met a friend from Brighton, and did the Brass Armadillo in Denver on Sunday and met with her son for lunch in Cheyenne on Monday before coming home over the Range.  We came back with some great finds.  I am off to sew with my quilt group this morning and plan to go to Sheridan with a friend for a few days next week.  But now it is time to get the garden finished.  With the early frost a few weeks ago, I had to bring my tomatoes in and they are getting ripe, a few each day.  The carrots still need to be pulled and will do that this week.  My catmint was so large that I had 4 loads in a wheel barrow of stems, or branches?, to haul out to the prairie and had to use a tree branch snipper to cut it all.  I watched the small herd of antelope stop to sniff and eat some of it.  Hope it didn't make them too loopy.  In the pasture next to our property, we have a very large herd of cattle grazing, a small herd of goats and a herd of 8 antelope...all grazing together and as I sit out on the back porch to watch all of this taking place it is no wonder that I don't get to this computer more often.  As fall is in the air, winter follows and I will be forced to be indoors more so I may get back to the blog.

Fall on the horizon

 Fall is on the way!!!  Yes it is!  But a couple of weeks ago we took another marvelous adventure with friends, packed a peanut butter sandwich and headed out to take in some of our high desert beauty.  Look at what we found!  Among the wild flowers and miles and miles of nothing...no vehicles, no homes, no people -  these ancient stones.  So many are perfectly round, some embedded in others.  What ever caused these?

 Here are some of the other formations, all are sandstone, weathered from the wind and at some point, probably water, however this is now a desert with only a few antelope and lots of gas wells.

So on another note, I still have a couple of stepping stones for people to get finished and hope to get that done this week. But I needed more mortar and it apparently only comes in 80 lb bags.  Really? 80 pounds? For a couple of old people, 80 lbs is HEAVY.  Not to mention the fact that we bought a new mattress and foundation so we took the old one upstairs and brought that older one downstairs.  More HEAVY!

Thank goodness for my quilting group.  Really it is a sewing group I guess.  We sew quilt tops...and don't do much actual quilting. I don't think I could handle another winter (which comes after FALL and sometimes skips FALL), without the support of these gals.  As I age, the arthritis kicks butt during the winter months and I have a pretty high tolerance for pain, but winter is long here.  So if the roads are not closed on Mondays, I will survive winter.  My buddy and I are starting a big quilt project and I will start to post these...but we have to get the vegetable garden and the watering system ready as it is supposed to be 28 degrees tomorrow.  FALL? give me a break.  We are skipping fall this year I fear.