Oct

Wow, keeping on the theme of the nice fall thus far, last weekend, I felt so good I hooked up the plow and plowed up the garden for next year.  I haven't felt this good in a while. It was so nice to feel the wind on my face, the noise of the tractor running wide open, feeling the dirt roll over the moldboards, ,and the smells of the soil, oh how good it is!!!  The only problem was an oil leak that got on my clothes boots and tractor.  Oh well the fragrant smell of motor oil will leave eventually, so until then I just live with it.  smels are so powereful at reminding us things.  Every year about this time, I catch a wiff of diesel smoke on cold autumn day and I get transported back in time, to when I was a tank commander, riding in Korea.  There too, the smells are so powerful, conveying times of youth, well younger days anyhow.  /suffices to say i really enjoy this time of year and the more I deal with it the less bad it becomes.  Enjoy the day!