God is raising the blinds on my picture of the world. What with the rain and the wind that we have had these past few days, the leaves are really dropping now and there is a lot more sunshine coming into my backyard. Our leaves in this area are at “fall peak” and a sunny day like today is a good day to go out and drive around the country side. My back yard is covered in orange this morning as the leaves from the tulip poplar trees are starting to fall at a fairly good rate now. I guess I need to figure out how to use the new yard toy that my kiddos bought me. It is a yard sweeper that I pull behind my John Deere. Jim assembled about 99% of it but there are no instructions to it at all. Sooo — I’ll have to figure the rest of it out.

I went for my MRI yesterday. They took a bazillion pictures of my neck & spine I guess they were looking for a pinched nerve or something. I got the report back but as far as I can read it, —- it didn’t show anything that was unusual. But, hopefully my doctor will have a better idea of what it all means and will come up with a plan. It isn’t as though the pain is more than I can stand, but it is certainly more than I want to tolerate. The MRI wasn’t a big deal, just noisy and loud. It took about twenty minutes of all that clanging and banging and it is right in your ear. They give you ear plugs but they don’t seem to help a lot. Or, maybe they help ore than I know. No telling what it would sound like with out the earplugs. My biggest problem was that there was no way to move my shoulder and arm to take the pressure off it and therefore relive the pain. That part sucked.

I have one fewer guests at the Backyard Buffet now. A hawk swooped in and carried away one of the smaller birds for his breakfast. That was rather rude, don’t you think? But, that is the way it goes as they say in the Circle of life. Sometimes you eat breakfast — sometimes you are breakfast. I need to fill somee feeders today again. I’ll do that as soon as I get off my duff and get busy.

Tonight we set the clocks back one hour. I never remember if we are starting or ending Daylight Saving time. I think it is a bumb practice and from what I hear, so do most people. It had its use “back-in-the-day” but not any more that I can see. But, folks who fail to remember will be at church an hour too early tomorrow. But that isn’t a bad thing either. I could sit in the parking lot or in the cemetery at our church and just enjoy the peace and solitude for an hour. We have seventeen acres of beauty surrounding our church. And the chimes play on the half hour so it is quite peaceful.

Time for my breakfast. I made a pan of Pilsbury Orange Danish roll and I’m anxious to get to them. Hav a great day.