Today was no doubt the last of our exceptionally nice weather.  It was even warmer than yesterday and lots of people were out and about enjoying it.  We took a brief ride around the pond this morning, stopping in West Danville where it was busy with tourists, and then we went along Old Homestead Road to check on all the old homesteads getting new looks.

The first one is the Collins cottage - looks like it's being raised so another floor can be installed to make it a two-story dwelling.  Then just up the road a bit the Nicholson home is in place, looking very nice.  (See photo on left.)  We were surprised that it's so large, but since it will be their year around home, it makes sense.  Next door, the Sherwood's parking area looks like there's work going on there, but that isn't the case - the road is narrow and there's hardly any room for the large equipment and all the material being used at the Rustad/Ferreira camp.  We can't tell what the Rustad camp will be like yet, but work is progressing nicely.

We couldn't continue by Rustad's as the road was blocked with the machinery working there, and we didn't want to interrupt, so we turned around and went out the way we'd come in.  We saw Larry Rossi just coming onto Old Homestead as we had stopped to take a picture of his new buildings (photo on left).  Larry said he will be moving all his equipment from Woodbury to this new facility.  It will be much more convenient for him and it will be great to have a builder "on site" at Joe's Pond.  Larry always seems to be busy around the pond - he is still working at Deckers on West Shore Road, but said he should be finished soon.  Click on photos to make them larger.

The rest of our day was spent at the usual stuff, and we got a little more done on the flower beds - but it was really too nice (and too warm!!) to work very hard.  Instead, I puttered around the place and enjoyed the sunshine.  I've spent a fair amount of time today on my computer trying to arrange meetings with two groups of students at the historical society building this week.  We have to work around teachers' schedules as well as our own and we're trying to do it all before we have to close the building for the winter at the end of October.  We'll make it work.  We are just very happy the teachers are interested in the resources we have at the HistSoc.  

Tomorrow I expect we'll have clouds and perhaps some rain most of the day and that will continue until the weekend.  The snow I mentioned in the forecast yesterday is apparently a sure thing, at least in the "mountains" on Friday night.  I'm not sure we qualify as a mountains, but we know Joe's Pond and surrounding hills are pretty likely to get snow if there's any around.  In the meantime, we will feel the temperature heading down a little more each day until it's in the 30s by Friday.  Back to reality and "normal" fall weather, some of the trees have already shed their leaves, so things will be bleak here soon until we get a nice covering of snow.

Here's an interesting video of a little girl, age 6, who may grow up to be president - we can only hope for such wisdom in the future.  Thanks to Louise and Marie for sharing this.