We are now halfway through the month of October 2023. This month… a day ago. Or so it seems like a big and a day ago.

The leaves seems slower in their exchange of colors, this year. By mid October, the leaves on the tree by my deck have turned fiery red, and have fallen, carpeting the wooden deck. They’re still mostly green and hanging to the wood for dear life. If the chance arrives, I may head to Woodland Cemetery this week for a photo hike, provided my legs are up to it. Saturday, I walked a total of 11,578 steps, so I am confident I can do it – my legs often have a mind of their own these days.

Last night, I locked all the dogs behind the gate in my bedroom. Colonel Deeds took it upon himself to decorate the bedroom, destroying two pillows.

On this day, in history, 1793, Marie Antoinette, the consort of Louis XVI, was guillotined. In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis began with President John F Kennedy going head to toe with the Soviet Union. Pope John Paul II was elected pontiff in 1978, and in 1936, dramatist and Nobel Prize for Literature. winner, Eugene O’Neill, was born. And Noah Webster, US lexicographer, was born in 1758.

The temperature is currently 47° and doesn’t feel cold to me. We shall only see a high of 54°, today.

Make it a great day!