It appears golfing season is over--at least on a daily basis. High today of 48. I'd like burn my trash, but it continues to be just too blame windy. I did start up the wood burning furnace this morning. I may have to resort to tossing my non-recyclables in there. I have to burn trash about once a month.

So with the weather change, my daily routine changes. I can spend more time on the computer in the morning (although it's awfully slow today). Without golf, I will exercise--jog, box, lift weights. Yesterday, I took a walk back to the nature preserve.

I noticed a huge oak tree had fallen during the passage of the wind storm the Midwest had two days ago. This preserve is a 27 acre old growth woods, never farmed. Trees are gargantuous! It's quite an island of flora and fauna. Like everything else, over time, that oak tree will lie there and eventually rot. Too bad. I could get 3 years worth of firewood out of it!

On my way out, I picked a plastic bag worth of hickory nuts, checking carefully for worm holes. Cracking them is still an exercise in futility--most are wormy. Now I have several bushels of black walnuts, butternuts, almonds (from my tree), and hickory nuts to occupy my spare time this winter.
I love nuts, and they're good for you. I've already spent $100 on "dried fruits and nuts" at the local Amish store (open only from Oct 21 to Dec. 4). Their produce comes from Calif. There are some things I can't grow or gather wild--dried cranberries and mixed nuts, for example. I sometimes think I'm a squirrel.

I quit early yesterday from my never ending wood splitting and stacking chores to bake a spaghetti "pie" with homemade sauce for supper. Outstanding, if I do say so myself! Tonight it's leftover ham and soybean soup (field beans). My condo sister (Carole) wants to eat Chinese tomorrow night. Her vegan twin sister (Barbara) won't go, of course. Dad might. (I'm taking all the advice I got from my last post, and using it on him.)

Hard freeze forecast for tonight. I've gathered green tomatoes and all my squash. Pears and apples need dehydrating, green peppers diced and oven baked for winter use. Pine needles and leaves need raked up, gutters cleaned out (again).

One nice thing about winter is I get to listen to more classical music on Purdue's radio station. It's on all day. Love it!
Cheerio.