Hello, Readers.
Thanksgiving preparations are going on
here at the Lamp Post.
Recipes ready,
grocery lists prepared.
Holiday prep never gets old,
but the older I get,
the longer I need to get ready, it seems.
As 2025 grows older
sun sets low on the horizon early--
in the 4 o'clocks now.
As it does,
it throws its light to the tree line.
giving everything a homey,
golden glow.
Any Readers have any luck with bee houses?
I never have.
If there's a trick to attraction,
let me know.
As the last of the leaves grow old
and begin to bend and fall,
Natalie has been helping make the last of the winter preparations
out in the greenhouse.
Here she is snipping of the zinnia heads.
as we save the seeds to replant next year.
Even with the days growing darker,
the sun in the morning is nice to see before work.
It looks like the new yard deer.
still in need of a coat of paint,
are worshipping the morning sun.
As the year grows older,
the lake grows angrier.
Goodbye big beach chair.
Hello, Ice Rescue bar.\
Look at what the township crew
pulled out of the water at Shorewood.
Clearly a UFO.
It was so windy when I was down there last weekend
it blew the port a john door open.
Glad no one was in there!
Soon, my favorite row of oak trees
along the east parking lot of Rolling Ridge
will lose their leaves.
I love how they look against
a gray sky.
This gal is riding a lucky streak again.
She won a YMCA raffle basket
scored some Wicked cereal,
and tickets to next Tuesday night's showing.
One of the best things I watched this week
was a video from Neil deGrasse Tyson.
He is the popular astrophysicist
that came to Erie to speak at the
Jefferson Educational Society.
My students love him!
He makes complex science
exciting and somewhat understandable.
He had some fantastic thoughts about growing older.
Weekend Homework:
Watch this 13 minute video
for some thought-provoking material.
He has a great laugh.
Listen to it,
and for a Bonus Point,
tell me whose laugh that reminds you of.
I can't quite place it.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving prep!
Eloise
