November? Really?

Well, here it is November 10th and it looks like this great weather that Maine has been having is starting to turn to REAL November. The last few days has been in the 60's and it has really been great. Got all of the tulips, daffodils, crocuses (or is it croci) and iris planted and the covers over the shrubs at the front of the house covered. The cover is to keep the snow and ice that shoots off the steel roof from decimating the Holly and Lilacs. Moved the little bridge from under the back roof this year so the ice doesn't take the railings off again this winter.
We have 11 bags of leaves piled up in front of the house. The Dept. of Public Works will be picking them up hopefully this week. If not the rain is going to make the bags a little less than easy to pick up and put into the truck. I can see the leaves all over the street.
The pumpkin at the lamp post is beginning to look a little sad. A little squishey on the top. Guess it won't become a pubpkin pie this year. Well really they haven't become pumpkin pies any year since we have put them out at the lamp post. Looks great, a scarecrow, corn stalks, a pumpkin and a bail of hay. Oh yes Dad put up the Christmas lights on the fence and the fir tree in the front yard. I did say it has been warm, didn't I? Why put the lights up when it is freezing and your fingers can't even tell if you have the string of lights in your hands or even if you have fingers at all?
My trip to the west coast was very goos. I only had carry on and was able to borrow clothes from my mother and Aunt Judy. Not an awful lot of wardrobe but did a lot of laundry. The weather was about what it was here in Maine. A good day then 3 or 4 rainy, cloudy, and dark. Three weeks of mostly cloudy days but when it was sunny it was absolutely gorgeous. I got some very good pictures of Mount Baker. Such a beautiful mountain. While I was there Stevens Pass in the Cascades had 8 inches of snow and Snoqualamie had 5 inches. We just had the rain. Got to see Russell and his family and Ronald and his. Russell has built a very nice home and is growning Banana plants. They are unedible but they are really neat plants. One leaf was about as long as I am tall. As is expected we had all of the kids and their kids over for dinner on the middle Sunday. Boy was that noisy!!!!!! Now I can say I've heard BEDLAM. With the kids, grandkids, and dogs barking. My head was spinning like a top. It was fun though.
For athe next few days we will be in the mid to low 40's with lots of rain of Friday and Saturday, so I guess we will start getting real November weather.
I will try to download some pictures that I took of Mount Baker so you can see what a beautiful mountain it really is.
Take care everyone have a good week and hey How about entering some of you stories.
Love to hear from all of you. I finally found out how to get back onto this thing so I could let you know how things are going here in Maine.
Love you all and wish you fair weather and suny skies.
Love, Love, Love Mom and Dad