A lot of happened on the Farm; several animals have gone missing and we believed a weasel or fisher cat had gotten all the chickens and maybe a cat, but listening to Nico, our GSD at night lately, it sounds like there maybe a band of coyotes or some such relative brought closer by the cold and impending winter.
The crops did fairly well, corn, beans, squash all really flourished with the noted exception of the corn which grew tall and appeared robust but some ears were small and underdeveloped. It's just like lots of things, nothing is as it quite appears. My tractor is sitting in the barn a little improved but not too much. I am promising to bring it out down to the garage and fully repair my Ford 9N to satisfactory running condition with the aid of Julius, the imprisoned retired farmer who currently is incarcerated at Atria where my wife Sue is enjoying her occupation as nursing assistant. It was touching last night as she told me they did a puzzle together. Both are as bright as the sun with humility that only comes with strong faith. I am blessed.
The Rabbit Dance Farm in Cumberland, RI, the Community Supported Agriculture Farm of which we are a contributing member, continues to provide us with an awesome array of organic foodstuffs, which we promptly eat. I bring the remaining food to my Dad and sister on the Cape. It seems Dad knows the difference which bodes well, but Sis, like my wife, is still hooked on pizza and chinese food. I brought Dad to a doctor's appointment last week. He is doing extremely well. His only compliant was frequent trips to the bathroom. Doctor Barbara Prazac informed us that this is a general side-effect of all the medication needed to keep his system in check. Next week, I will bring him to a dental appointment. I am sure looking forward to that ! It will much better and just as necessary as the urology appointment.
It's great to ride with him in car and just enjoy the passing seasons on the way to the doctor. We always stop at Sunken Meadow Beach before returning to home to look at the bay water.
The sunsets are still the most beautiful from that vantage as that end of Cape Cod gets both sunrise and sunset. The wilder Atlantic ocean has the sunrise and more gentle Cape Cod Bay has the sunset. Hopefully the same course course our lives should take: a stronger, untamed and wilder youth and a calmer and more pliable, but gentling fading life in is later years. It will shed life in still another place.