Sunday, September 9th 2007
In the end, there are bigger concerns even in my small realm, than whether or not I lost weight last week. This morning we are finally getting the first real rain we've had in over a month and that trumps the disappointment I felt earlier when I weighed in.
Saturday, September 8th 2007
They got the branches down and fed through the chipper before noon but then they had to work in the sun to cut down the massive trunks. They took frequent breaks and finished up before 4:00. Another truck came in to pick up the big stuff and got two loads out leaving one more, I think, for this morning. All this on a day when we had the highest temperature of the year and a record for the day, 95º/35º.
Friday, September 7th 2007
No diet blogging this morning. I can't concentrate on anything except the crew that arrived at 7:30 to take down the two old box elders in the back. We've really enjoyed these trees for the past nineteen years and we're going to miss them. And the fairies that a little girl was once convinced lived in the gnarled old trunk of the bigger tree.
Thursday, September 6th 2007
A big bump in the temperature today/tomorrow. I can't complain when it's been so much hotter for so many other folks. And the tomatoes love it; the Brandywines seem to have a new lease on life and are setting lots of new fruit which I'm trying to keep pinched back. If we have another late frost like last year we may have tomatoes right along.
Wednesday, September 5th 2007
When we moved to NY and I stopped bicycling and started gaining weight, I also stopped sewing and eventually put away all the clothes I'd made.