Sleepy Sunday

 I haven't accomplished much today except I have had two very nice catnaps - one shortly after breakfast and another after lunch. It looks like a lovely day outside, but I haven't tested the temperature on my porch. My thermometer (out of the sun) is reading 61F, and there is a breeze, so I expect it's sweater weather, at least. Last night was cold again, with frost on the ground this morning.

I mentioned on my last post that son, Bob, was diving with the milfoil crew on Friday. They did that - and he sent me a photo of their "Last Dive of '25". This was taken before they entered the water. I expect none of them would have had much luck taking a picture when they got out. Bob told me that after a previous diving session last week, he tried to make a call with his cell phone and his fingers were so cold the phone wouldn't recognize the touch. Even the support crew looks bundled up against the chill! I hope they are all ending the dives - the water is only going to get colder as the night temperatures continue to slip downwards.

Here's what Bob wrote:  Took these yesterday [Friday] before my final dive of 2025!  
From left, Jim Benotas, Jamie Stewart, Barry Cahoon, Bob Dimick. Not pictured is Butch Bouchard who was our cheerful, attentive kayaker yesterday.

They may go longer but I’m done - brrrrrrrrrr! Jim and I spent about two hours in the drink and I couldn’t even feel my hands pulling the last couple of plants in the second pond.

Great team, good friends and incredibly generous volunteers, all. It’s a privilege to be a part of it and I look forward to getting back together with them and the other volunteers in the spring when days get warmer and longer vs. shorter and colder!

I recently looked for some autumn pictures in my files and found lots of them. I nabbed this one (left) taken  Oct. 2, 2008 for my desktop image. I  found another, (right) taken on October 31, 2002 when we had six inches of snow fall on  us.

 

I took the two below a few minutes ago from my living room window. Pretty dull. The small oak tree is still showing some color, but most of the maples have lost their leaves with the wind we had yesterday and again today. There are still a few bright spots behind my house, but the foliage was never as pretty this fall as it has been many other years.