Last Saturday, I slept in – a rare experience for me. But I finally woke up at 9:30 when Amber and Nina decided it was time for me to get up.

With characteristic enthusiasm, they both bounded on to my bed and I was awake.

And what a day it was!

After almost a week of overcast, cloudy, depressing weather, it was a divinely sunny beautiful day.

Even though we have had a few predictions of frost, they were only forecasts. And our backyard was still alive with color.

The greens were more green than usual and the red 3-foot-tall chicken gi...

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