Our First Snowfall on Sunday - Brings on a Fall/Winter Season

You may recall that I've been busy getting ready for this change of Seasons. I was nearly ready too. I gave up some of my business hours last week to finish the raking of my garden, and bagging those leaves. I also cut down my super-tall raspberry canes.

EW, who had helped with trimming off the excess branches on the elms promised to line up a friend, Einer, who has a truck and trailer, to come to take all this heap of branches away.

(I just forgot which day EW thought this would happen, and guess what - Einer just showed up! However, he gave me his phone number and asked me to call him when EW shows up. We can't call EW because he has no phone).

So I may have time to write this RoseBouquet in the meantime.

My much shorter list of things I still hoped to get done included, raking the front yard again as more leaves had fallen, sweeping the path beside my house, and the patio area and the back steps, etc. The rain barrel needed to be rinsed out and set upside down near the back porch. I wanted to go cut off the sunflowers when it started to snow, and bring them in to harvest the seeds. And... if there was enough time I hoped to use a spade to make a narrow little trench on either side of the garden path, so that when the snows melts in spring, the water will not pool on the path but drain off so that I don't have to navigate an icy garden path if going somewhere early mornings, or late at night.

Well. Things turned out differently for me last week.

1. I had a chiropractor appointment at noon on Wednesday, and I'd promised a cousin and a friend that I would deliver some aloe vera plants to them right after that, as they had no transportation. By the time I got finished with those stops, and got home, I was hungry and super-TIRED. When I woke it was too dark for the sun sets at 6 pm this time of year.

2. On Thursday I gave up my business hours to rake the whole garden, bag the leaves, and after lunch I went out to cut down the raspberry canes, as that is suppose to make them more productive the next year. Of course, those 4-6 hours wiped me out again, for the rest of the day.

3. My sweet Dental Clinic Senior student had called to ask if I could make it for an appointment on Friday afternoon for my filling. That was the last appointment for this intensive series of dental work over September and October. I agreed; I really was ready to be done with that multi-session project. She thought it would only be an hour, but it took 3 hours. In fact, we held up those who were trying to lock up the clinic at 4:30pm. Again, I was utterly exhausted when I got home, and did not even try to change into gardening clothes for the last hour or so of daylight.

4. Four Alliance churches in our city usually go together for a Missions Conference every October. COVID canceled that plan the last two years, but this year it was on again. I've loved Missions Conferences since I was a kid, so I couldn't stay away. The Sat. morning session was at Avalon Church with a pancake breakfast and then workshops with various missionaries. (We could only pick 2 out of 3 options).

I came out at noon and decided that I would still go for a quick haircut. (I was feeling like a shaggy sheep-dog). Their waiting room was full so I went into a nearby No-Frills store for a few items of groceries. When I got back the line-up had cleared, and I got my quick cut.

But when I got home I was spent. (Maybe I really am as old as my records show). My nap took until 4 and I only woke because my sister called from Ontario to tell me about her new puppy. I glanced up at the clock and realized I wasn't going to get the front lawn raked; I had to change into dress up clothes for the Missions Banquet at our church, followed by the Rally. The Banquet, catered by a Ukranian Chef, was to start at 5 pm. I had to scurry off to make it in time.

Sunday morning the skies were overcast and the forecast was for 10 cm of snow for Regina, and a little less for Saskatoon. All I could hope was that the snow would melt quickly, and maybe the ground would dry off later this week. Driving home at noon, the snow was coming down thick, but also melting quickly on contact with warm surfaces. However, over-night it did make a blanket of thick snow on the grasses. The street and sidewalks were still warm enough to melt it on contact.

However, this morning the sun is out and it is hard to find a patch of snow. It is suppose to get a bit warmer every day this week, so I may still get to do my last cleanup jobs before the real winter sets in.

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