Each morning has been a bit different, some misty, others clear. This photograph is of sunrise on Thursday, September 22.
Cribbs Road runs East to West. My place is aligned with the road so that the front door faces south. From the front porch I watched the neighbor harvest corn for fodder last week. Their pasture field is beyond the corn field on the other side of the hollow, visible from my front window.
Montgomery winery is up over the hill to the north. The dairy farm is visible from my west facing bedroom windows. The morning traffic pretty much consists of the school bus and the milk truck at around 7:30 am.
On Friday my folks took me to sign up for electric service through the REA, a cooperative which goes back to rural electrification in 1937. I hope the powers that be don’t go after it like other social programs dating from the days of FDR.
We headed for Indiana PA then took a wrong turn and ended up going north on US 119 toward Punxsutawney instead of taking the road to Jimmy Stewart Airport. It was quite scenic. Once we got there, I joined the coop and got instructions for reading the meter. We had lunch in Indiana, then stopped at the grocery store.
I have been seeing an amazing variety of birds — bluebirds, robins, blue jays, phoebe, kildeer, yellow shafted flicker, sparrows, buzzards, and a hawk. The binoculars and my bird book have come in handy. Will be interesting to see what comes through when they start winter migration.
A pleasant surprise is that WQED/WQEJ FM classical radio station comes in clearer here than WFMR did in Milwaukee. TV reception is marginal, but I am picking up WQED channel 13 quite well with rabbit ears antenna.
