Fall in Maine

Hi Family,
Fall has started to set in, in good old Maine. The days are staying warm after it warms up in the morning, got cool last night but not as cool as it is at Kathy's. With the oil situation we are hoping for a late winter, warm winter and an early spring. Do you think we are hoping for too much? The original Farmer's Almanac says that it is going to be exceptionally cold this winter in the New England states. Hope they are as right this year as they have been in other years. NOT!!
Dad is trying to get things ready to accept what ever cold that comes along. Just hope for little bit of cold though.
We will be going to the Fryeburg Fair on September 30th. Hope the weather is as nice as it usually is for the fair dates. Of course we go on Senior Citizen day. No fee for parking and we don't have to pay to get in. Now I would say that is a great bargain. Only pay for the fatty food we eat. Of course I have to have my Sausage and Pepper sandwich.
As Mom said it is a great day. The black and white pest is sitting in my lap demanding that I scratch him under the chin. He puts his paw on my arm and raises his head as if to say "right about there"
I'm also doing a little body work on my new toy (my new truck). I'm also doing a couple of rust spots on Mom's car. I have my own little cart I made to put all of my "stuff" to do work on the cars. I guess I don't have to much to do. We are going to go with the Dearborn's to their kids camp to pick up the canoe and while we are there we will have a picnic lunch and Dan and I will do some fly fishing. Mom and Jo will probably sit on the deck and sun themselves. When it comes to fly fishing I have a ton of flys and haven't the foggiest on which one to use so I try them all, but not at the same time.
I will be going to Writer's Conference on Saturday to learn some more stuff. One of these days I will write a book or maybe finish a couple short stories.
Dad and I were interviewed for a story in one of the weekly papers regarding Hazardous Waste. Come to find out we have more that we though we did. Window cleaner, furniture polish and a couple of other things that really surprised us. We had batteries in the drawer and of course the buttons we need for some things and that is hazardous. They are Lithium. We also had a bag of batteries that we have kept forgetting when it comes to the Collection days. Oh well. One of the pictures was terrible. We will send the article to you so you can see it wasn't as bad as it sounds. We know the proper way to discard the harmful stuff.
Well I guess this is enough rambling for now. Let's see what we can come up with next.
Love you guys.
Mom and Dad