SKUNKED!

       I make an effort to do as much walking as possible. Out of the last 21 nights I've walked on 20 of them. The weather has been very pleasant so the walking is easy.

      I find that if I have a regular routine, I don't miss very many days.

      Right now I walk around the outskirts of my neighborhood. It's around 3600 steps.

      I usually start around 8:00 PM. Yes ,it's dark by then. This year has been better as there are many more walkers out at that time. 

     Now what really makes my walk is the number of deer I see. One night I saw  8 deer...4 bucks, 2 does and 2 fawns. Most of the deer we have are mule deer. They are a little bigger than white tailed deer .

     Well last night I didn't see one deer! I was skunked. 

     It's 7:27 PM so I'm going to get ready to walk. Will I see deer tonight?

      This fellow was in my neighbor's yard towards the end of July. 

FINE FALL WEATHER

      Today was one of those fine fall days that makes fall so pleasant. 

      My job today was to dig my garden. Yes, I grow a vegetable garden and yes , I dig every bit of it by hand! Now my garden plot isn't very large ... maybe 20 x 30 feet. But for an elderly person , it's a lot of digging. 

      The temperature was about 20 C . The sun was bright. Not a cloud in the sky. No wind. It was dry. It was a beautiful day to be outside. 

     We have had very little precipitation since the end of June. Everything is dry. However, it seems like a good fall day has to be dry. Farmers want dry weather to harvest their crops. 

    This would have been a great day to just sit on your deck or patio. 

    Here's one of those pleasant fall days when we were out birding. 

A PLEASANT FALL MORNING

       I finally got to go out with the birding group this morning. I can't take bird photos but I can get some scenery. There's much more color than a couple of weeks ago. 

      We also saw lots of birds. we saw 32 species. The yellow rumped warbler we saw should be out of here. There were many robins. 

DISMAL FALL SCENERY

       Scenery this fall is kind of ragged and pale. The colors are paler and many of the leaves have been damaged by the very dry summer we had. Trees shut down because of the dryness. Many of the leaves have brown or black spots which indicates damage to the leaves in the summer.

      I was out to one of my favorite places...Michael Obrien Wetlands. It's an artificial wetland developed to treat storm water before it enters the river system.

     Ordinarily it is beautiful in the fall. 

I FORGOT AN AWFUL LOT!

        My  post on television programs was to lament the good shows of long ago TV.  I used a few examples of shows. I could have named a few more but the list would have been short.

        As usual, readers know best and you listed many great TV programs. I had forgotten many of them. You mentioned many good shows.

     And then I started thinking about what you left out. Some of these may not be the greatest of shows. Who could forget Archie Bunker. When I would come home from school , I would sit with the kids and read the paper with one eye and watch the show they were watching with the other eye. The Jacksons were on every afternoon. George was such a fool! They also watched the one with Don Knotts and then it alternated with "Jack" . I can't remember the shows name or Jack's name. 

     And then I get some anonymous comments. I'm usually very cautious with them.  

    I thought the one was my friend as he mentioned M.A.S.H. I remember that he really liked M.A.S.H. So I took a guess and used his name Uncle Bobby in the reply . My son replied and asked who is Uncle Bobby ? So all this time the "anonymous" was my son! Uncle Bobby was a teacher I taught with and he also taught my son. 

I'M STILL HERE

       I've been away for a few days. No, I wasn't sick. I wasn't even busy. I didn't watch the Queen's funeral. 

        I could not get on the internet and it said that whoever it is couldn't find my IP address. Statements with the notice that my "IP address could not be found" were of no help as I don't know what thy mean. 

       So tonight I finally phoned my provider. After a couple of useless suggestions, I thought , here we go for nothing. Then he said he would reset my modem. Bingo! I was back in business. 

      He explained that modems should be reset one in a while. Whatever time once in a while is. 

     So I'm happy to be back and catch up with some blogs. 

OLD TV SHOWS

        I used to watch TV. Now I don't watch one minute in a whole year. 

        So what did I watch?

        Some of you will have to be very old to remember these TV shows. 

       I liked the variety shows. The shows with several short segments. So for example Red Skelton always had a section with Clem Kadiddle Hopper. There was also a clown section. I also listened to Red Skelton when he was on radio.

     Carol Burnette had a first class variety show. I liked her telephone monologue in each show. 

     Many people make fun of Ed Sullivan, but he kept us well entertained on a Saturday night. 

Sullivan had great acts and we won't get that he had the Beatles. 

     Every Sunday night we watched Bonanza. This was a one hour show of the adventures of the Cartright family. I never missed it. 

     Now there were other variety shows that came and went.  The variety show was gradually taken over by situation comedies. 

    Now it's movies or long series that we buy at one time. I haven't got time to spend on a long series. 

    Has anybody else seen these shows and liked them?

    Tell me the good shows that I missed.