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Ah, blackberries - I've picked a few up in the woods, where there was a farm once, now overgrown - but for more I have to go to the supermarket...And I see your attitude to fall is roughly the same as my own...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 25, 2013 at 8:57 AM
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Re: ReCiel
I love the young and new, and the old and last-hurrahing. There is beauty in freshness, and also in experience and survival, and my thoughts on mortality are... unusual. And I do know of chilblains and wet hankies, very much! And feet like frozen clubs, pounding the way to school when I missed the bus... 5 miles each way, and uphill all the way, both coming and going...
posted by
Ciel
on September 25, 2013 at 8:55 AM
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I love blackberries, but not so much snails and spiders.
posted by
UtahJay
on September 25, 2013 at 8:44 AM
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Re: Adnohr
Mud is a pleasant diversion from having to watering plants Adnohr. Yes gum boots
made of rubber I suppose or used to be more 
usually plastic now.
I am trying to make my net tunnels strong enough to stand a snowfall
not much chance if they were in your back yard
posted by
C_C_T
on September 25, 2013 at 7:51 AM
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Lots of wool socks in the Wellingtons will do the trick. I wear them around here (but we call them gum-boots) but my mud mostly appears in the spring, not the fall. Snow comes too quickly for it to get too muddy in the fall. I love the color green, but NOT for my house!!
posted by
adnohr
on September 25, 2013 at 3:15 AM
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ReCiel
How sad Ciel that you love dying things instead of the sweet fresh beauty that comes with spring. I shed a few tears when I read your blog. Evidently you have never traipsed around wet and cold through misty Autumn days with chilblains on your ears, fingers and toes. Your little nose bright red and only wet tissues in a ball in your thin coat. 
posted by
C_C_T
on September 25, 2013 at 12:28 AM
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Re: heh--the roof repair guy and the house owner next door are on the roof.
Ciel
I once had a near neighbor he was always pestering me for odd bits of felt to patch the
holes under his tiles, sadly he was a builder once and employed sixty men,
posted by
C_C_T
on September 25, 2013 at 12:20 AM
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Re: Oh, it's all a mixed blessing no doubt, the leaves will soon turn bright
I think you like it there Taps you said once before you were going to move, I suppose the devil one knows. The trouble is these days ratty neighbors always go into the local bar and inquire who or what the neighbors are. I would if I thought of moving.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 25, 2013 at 12:13 AM
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Re: CCT
true Bill and tears and ears but not of corn.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 25, 2013 at 12:09 AM
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Yes Jimmy he goes to the Bookies each day. He used to keep hundreds of birds but the fluff was killing him. Just reminds me I must tell him not to attempt to cut is ivy on the wall it is loaded with pollen and it nearly did for him last year.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 25, 2013 at 12:08 AM
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Re: Kabu
No Kabu in that thing that thing beside the shower, I think it is for washing one's feet in. Begins with B. Frosts already crikey that's tough.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 25, 2013 at 12:05 AM
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Yes FS one is allowed a certain percentage in bread enjoy.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 24, 2013 at 11:51 PM
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Re: Wiley
Cheers Bro glad you could make it
posted by
C_C_T
on September 24, 2013 at 11:50 PM
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Re: Yaps
Wellingtons are alright but one finds them cold and have to be
be-careful when it is frosty, they are quite slippery.
I have to keep two or three pairs of shoes handy for different conditions.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 24, 2013 at 11:49 PM
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You are right about the mud. Yesterday when I was tramping around in the soft ground noticing poke berries and trumpet creepers and such, I got mud stuffed into the tread of my shoes and up the sides. When I came in, I left them outside the door as I didn't want to mess with them. This morning when the sun came up and son was up he noticed them sitting there and took it upon himself to clean them up. Even finished up with a layer of mink oil on the tops of them for a bit of waterproofing. Now I'm afraid to get them dirty again, and of course I have no Wellingtons.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 24, 2013 at 8:02 PM
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ChiffChaff
posted by
WileyJohn
on September 24, 2013 at 7:55 PM
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Reading about the snail and the spider reminds me of a college class I took called Insects in Our World, where I found out that insects are in a lot of the produce we eat...With the autumn chill in the air right now, the poem strikes me.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 24, 2013 at 6:05 PM
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i like todays pretty flower...do you stand them in the toilet bowl to photograph???
I am glad the critters weren't frozen with the blackberries and we are expecting another frost tonight. Fall will become ugly with all the leaves gone soon.
posted by
Kabu
on September 24, 2013 at 3:29 PM
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Blackberries are very good for you, with or without the little critters! I hope you can get poor Smokey out of his funk! Is there anything in particular that he is fond of that amuses him to no end . . . ? 
posted by
JimmyA
on September 24, 2013 at 2:22 PM
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CCT
ÖThe leaves are there when money isn’t sir. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on September 24, 2013 at 1:50 PM
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Oh, it's all a mixed blessing no doubt, the leaves will soon turn bright
and take flight. I'll be combing the neighbor's oak leaves out of my tender new grass in another month or so. I do not like mud underfoot or trailing behind me on the floor when I come in. Maybe I'll call the company that buys ugly houses to flip and resell, and just let the landlord worry about painting the trim and mending the fence.
posted by
Pat_B
on September 24, 2013 at 12:16 PM
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heh--the roof repair guy and the house owner next door are on the roof.
I suspect from the plastic laid over part of it, there are leaks happening to the little family below.
posted by
Ciel
on September 24, 2013 at 10:46 AM
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Part of the charm of autumn, in my view,
is the blustery day, grey and wet, that one comes in from to sit at a fire with a hot cuppa that it was too warm in the summer to enjoy.
The brilliant colors that delight eyes, and the scents of autumn--pumpkins and old leaves, those are nice, too.
So, put your Wellingtons up on the upholstery y'old curmudgeon, and let Archie's wife come by and clean up the mud!
posted by
Ciel
on September 24, 2013 at 10:29 AM
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