Quiet Evening

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It’s about 4:30 in the afternoon as I began to write this post.  It’s been a relatively quiet day up here on the mountain.  I’ve been smoking my Dunhill pipe a good part of the day.  My tobacco is Bayou Night and I have a bottle of water here on the table.  When it’s not raining or I’m doing errands I spend my time here on the deck unless I go to the garage to get out of the rain.

I take walks a lot of mornings up here.  I love walking on the road that cuts through the forest here.  My wife and I were talking today about spending more time here in NY, but that depends on so many factors.  The house came with an above ground swimming pool, but we’re talking about getting rid of it.  It is more of a liability than an asset although it’s been used about a dozen times since we’ve owned the house.  

There is a family of deer that cuts through our back yard often.  And while the deer are pests to plants and gardens, I enjoy seeing them.  Our first March here we counted 21 deer grazing in our front yard!  We haven’t seen that many deer at one time since.  But we’ll have a single deer stop and graze once in a while.  We haven’t encountered any bears while here, but they are around.  Last year we put our garbage in the trash cans and the bears kept raiding them.  We now keep our garbage in the garage and pit it in the cans the night before pick up.  We have since learned.

We have wild turkeys roam through our yard once in a while.  I haven’t seen but a rabbit or two, but they say pumas and wolves are in the area.  The deck is on the second floor so we can look down at the animals without disturbing them.   We’ve seen a few cats, but we think because of their larger size they aren’t feral.  We think they are cats belonging to our neighbors.  

This is country living up here.  Some might associate country living with farms.  It’s not that but houses here have a lot of land around them.  It’s just peaceful living with nature.  Lawns are well groomed.  Houses are nicely kept with rare exceptions.  It’s just a quiet and Peaceful afternoon.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Papa Chasteen

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