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Oct. 11th Hello to each of you, hope you are having a good week.

This cooler weather has been nice. Only one thing it means we are to get some colder weather before long. Winter. No one I know of likes colder weather and that is Phylis Hensley. She could live in Alaska without any heat. For real!

Hello everyone. Hope you’re all having a great week.

Good Thursday morning. I went to feed Bo and the cat. As I was coming home this morning, I saw an eagle in the tree. It was pretty. I visited Leisa Younger and Charity Rolen at the Mountain Wave office. It rained pretty close to three inches at my house. Bonnie Marker visited me, Last Friday I went to Harrison. I visited with Fanny Smith. We ate lunch at the Senior Center. After lunch we went shopping at another store. After that we went to Edward’s. Then we went to Fanny’s house. I came home after that. Kathy and her family came home from their trip. They have been to Florida.

Hello to all of you Marshall Mountain Wave readers and greetings from the jewel of the Ozarks, Leslie, Arkansas. What a week of magnificent fall weather we have had. Cool mornings and in the 70s during the day. We got some good rain this week as well. The persimmons are ripe, and we cut open the seeds and found the white inner seed to be in the shape of a spoon. Now according to wife’s tales and the farmer’s almanac spoons mean a wet winter with a lot of snow, and we had 9 foggy days in August so we should expect 9 snowstorms. We shall see if this bit of folklore has any merit as to how much snow we get. In the meantime, I am enjoying the cool Autumn weather. While excavating the garden we discovered a vein of red clay that runs deep and wide so we have been making some earthenware from it and firing it in a pit in the back paddock of the garden. We have had some success in firing these pots with the clay body that we have and the pit we are firing in. So we have decided to build a mudbrick kiln to see if we have better success in firing the pottery that we are making.

Good morning. Boy, what a difference a week makes! Today we are turning on heaters in the house.

News time again, I’ll try to jot down a few lines. The rain only dampened the annual junk fest for a couple days this week, then the sun came out and yard sales popped up like mushrooms. We got to visit a few and enjoyed visiting with the people as much as the shopping.

I have seen one hummingbird this week. There is a little short tail wren around the front porch this week. I keep hearing a screech owl in the woods below the pond. I still have armadillos that are digging in the yard. There have been some hogs over in the horse pasture and the east side of the hay field. There are so many of them and they multiply pretty quick.