Just here chilling, on a chilly morning in good old South Jersey

Waiting on Molly to finish her morning breakfast why I brew a fresh cup of coffee. I’m planning my day in my head while she finishes the last few bits of kibble and chicken. I think I’ll mow the lawn today and get that out-of-the-way, but it’s still a bit damp yet and needs to dry out before that happens. I get frustrated if i mow wet grass. It just clogs the mower deck.

Oh there we go fresh cup of coffee in hand, and just waiting on Molly.

Looks like she’s just about done eating, although her head is buried in that bowl! She needs to get every last bit since it’s so tasty.

Looks like she’s all done so let’s head outside and see what’s going on in the garden. Molly has to take care of business if you know what I mean so let’s kill some time checking some things out. I may need to work on this garden a little bit today as well cleaning things up and getting rid of some of the old vegetable plants. Things are starting to go the other way As the days get shorter and the nights start to get colder.

It’s chilly out here this morning, registering a cool 52°F on the thermometer. 52 feels pretty chilly when you’re used to 80° To 90° weather in the past few weeks. It’s refreshing though. You can see the water vapor steaming off my cup of coffee into the morning sun.

Molly heads one way as I head the other. She’s hunting out a good place to depositing her number two and I’m heading toward the garden to check out what’s going on.

Looks like the garden, as I said, is heading the other way. I haven’t picked anything out of it for a week or so. I may be able to get a few more string beans out of there before the plants are completely done producing. There are several watermelon there in the foreground, but they didn’t taste that great and they were loaded with seeds this year. A Disappointment, so they can sit there and rot away.

String beans may be able to be salvaged, watermelon sucks, tomato plant didn’t do that great, peppers were plentiful but you can only so many of those, and the squash have been done for a while.

I take a second and take a look around the yard trying to locate Molly. She’s a small dog so she gets lost in the vastness of the backyard. I want to keep an eye on her in case there’s a bird of prey close by or something else that could harm her. Otherwise she typically goes to the same places and stays within the confines or borders of the yard.

Holy cow Molly! She is way over there today. I guess she is curious about what’s going on closer to the neighbors yard. She also likes them, so she’s always eyeing up their back door or their yard to see if they’re out so she can run over to say hello.

It’s kind of hard to see her over there. I’ll zoom in a little so you can see her. There she is!

Well she seems content, so I’m gonna continue checking out the garden. Looks like that pineapple plants survived and is doing well. Here it is, easier to see now that some of the watermelon vines have died off. I need to transplant this plant into a pot of its own and bring it in soon. I want to do this before The temperatures dip too low and frost is a possibility. So maybe today that will get done.

I had to set my coffee cup down to get a good shot, so may as well include it in one of the pictures. And yes it’s black coffee. The only way to drink it! Ha ha ha.

Oh, look who’s done going PooPoo. Molly! She’s come over to join me and looks like an absolute mess. She is wet as can be from the heavy dew that was on the grass this morning. She’s a short legged dog, so as she runs along the grass she picks up every little bit of water. Her fur is like a sponge too. Oh well, I keep a towel by the back door and will wipe her dry before she heads indoors.

She’s not sure what I’m doing here in the garden, so she would rather take a more defensive stand. She takes a position behind me just in case one of the vegetables leaps out at her.

Looks like she’s ready to head indoors and I’m done poking around here. I’ll go ahead and take her inside, get her dried off, cleaned up, and what not. After that I think I’ll take a walk back to the lake.

Molly’s fixed up and Start my stroll out to the lake, which is about 250 feet from the back door. Not a bad walk at all.

The water is extremely calm. I don’t feel any sort of breeze at all out here. Heck, I don’t even see any ducks or geese swimming around. They tend to make ripples on the surface of the water. I expected to find at least one or two fishermen too. Not a single one and the fish are jumping. I caught several bass jumping along the edge. Looked to be some decent sized fish jumping. Look at that surface.. looks like a mirror image on that water.

Things are starting to heat up out here. The sunshine is warm and the coffee is almost gone. I think I’ll head inside and prepare for mowing. I better get started on that before the day is a wash.

What’s on your agenda this weekend?

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