Close to Freezing.

9-17-11 VERMONT: We have had more rain, two showers, each delivered 0.2 inches. The big weather news is a cold spell. Last night it was in the mid-thirties, today was cool, windy and partly sunny, tonight is again predicted to be in the thirties. Brrr. We have had fires in the evening. I put up the storm doors and put the screens away today. One of the outer doors was coming apart at the bottom from all the rain. I took it down, removed rotted dowels, let it dry, replaced the dowels, glued it and clamped it together. Tomorrow I’ll rehang it and put the glass in.

We brought in more tomatoes today, another big basket full. We have six big, ripe pumpkins and three more still green. The corn was disappointing this year, about half the stalks were stunted and produced only small, deformed ears.

There are mushrooms everywhere. Big cup shaped ones in white and brown, yellow domes, yellow cocktail tables, red frilly ones, white clusters, and more—all due to the monsoon rains.

New blooms: another hybrid day lily, clearly the last just opened.


Apple trees laden with red fruit.

Here are some of those spider webs I mentioned in the last post. All those grey things are invisible when dry.