We wanted to take a longer hike today so we chose one of our favorites… It’s the old duck Brook Trail that heads from notch Road back to our house. It used to be part of the long trail but was made a side trail when they dealt a bridge over there winooski.

What made this walk interesting is that there was a ton of dry leaves. It was unusual because the weather tends to get much wetter around this time of year in the leaf mass is usually pretty matted down.  Today there was deep piles a very dry leaves which made for fun, noisy and very slippery walking. It was actually worse than walking on snow or ice because we didn’t have crampons on… We kept slipping and falling in the calf-high piles of leaves that covered the trail. … It was more fun than frustrating. It was interesting to see that there were still flowers out there… This time of year should be much colder

 

nice to be outside for so long !

ah.. here’s a better view of the lift chair swing we made for Sam yesterday… So glad to get that done. funny Side story is that I had forgotten to turn my tracker off on my phone so here’s a picture of my day working around the house.. And one photo of a “moon shadow” from tonights full moon !

 

back to work tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me