Late afternoon and partly cloudy on this final day of October here in northern Michigan. . A beautiful day after a week of rain and then snow. Temp is around 40. Dogs and I just returned from a long walk in the woods. About 2 and a half miles. Thry had a great time, all kinds of sniffs to check out and Piper gave chase to what I assume was a squirrel or rabbit. She was back in a couple minutes. The only excitement I had was getting my feet tangled up with a hidden branch under the leaves and taking a tumble in the leaves. That was followed by two very rambunctious dogs who thought that was great fun having mom down in the leaves
. Then they of course got into a wrestle session followed by some mini chases. They don’t chase each other through the woods like they did when they were younger though. So now there are a couple of tired but happy dogs soud asleep. One in one outside.
Yep, tine change coming pretty soon. Everybody hates days getting shorter and nights longer, but in all actuality, it doesn’t matter. It’s gong to get darker earlier in the evening or in the morning no matter if it’s DST or ST. Whether you have to drive in the dark in the morning or late afternoon, you still have to drive in the dark. We change time and then get light later and dark earlier for about 8-10 weeks, and it starts to go the other way again. As we get into mid November here, we get dark by 5:30 and daylight around 8:10. I don’t drive after dark anymore either.
Cleaned the house this morning and got the Christmas woodcrafts primed and ready to work on. Will be changing the front entrance over to Thanksgiving theme later this week.
I probably won’t be up late tonight either. I watched the Detroit Lions on Monday Night football last night. . Was a great exciting game. I’m not one to watch football much anymore, but Detroit has a great team this year, so thought I would check it out. Glad I did. Been a long time coming. The stadium was packed with a cheering, clapping, sign waving crowd, whom I think stood through the whole game. Black, white, young, old, all having the time of their lives, all wrapped up in the moment.. I thought how come can we can’t do that all the time.