It's the annual "Nightmare Before Thanksgiving" post!!!

As usual, involved with things right up to the last minute, but here it is -




(just push "play" to complete the horror of the scene...)

Anyway, enjoy the day, we all have much to be thankful for, whether we realize it or not...

autumn...
this is about a quarter of the grounds proper, taken yesterday afternoon...





this is what it looks like today, after application of rake and mulching mower...





like i said, this is about a quarter of the grounds...

here's about a third of the area i did today...



still have to tackle the back woodlot.

it's amazing the therapeutic value working outside on a day like this has on one's soul...

the dreaded standard time is upon us again... how i hate it. i leave for work in the dark as it is, now i'll be heading home in the full dark... at least it's only about six weeks until the Winter Solstice and the daylight time will start growing longer again.

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something is wrong...
i don't know what it is, maybe it's not so much something is wrong as it is that a lot of things aren't right. i've not been this much out of balance for a long, long time. everything seems an effort. nothing seems able to find it's own level, nothing seems to have an actual end... it all just goes on, and on and on. the disconnect between my thoughts and my deeds is worsening. everything flees from my touch.
it is maddening that no one can see what i can see in everything, no one can hear what i hear...
there is nothing out beyond me... i am standing still...

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