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Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile. -- William Cullen Bryant
What an absolutely exquisite weekend. I know I shouldn't have favorites, but Lord help me I do and of all the seasons, Autumn is by far the one that reaches inside me, wraps its color and coolness around my heart and brings the most smiles to this mature face.
I had a ton of work this weekend .. mowed both fields, trimmed all around the house, shed, fields, trees, and pruned the branches that somehow managed during the course of the winds here, to snap, but not completely fall.. and then there were those that hung too low for spring and the blossoming time to come.
As I was working and looking at the breath-taking colors of the maples, the cherry, the hickory trees, I found the last critters making busy in the fields. The dragonflies that buzzed around me playing tag with each other had to be at least 4 inches long. The small white and yellow sulphur butterflies performed an aerial ballet just for me.
Each rock I dug up showed me that the ants were preparing for the winter to come.. busy, busy, busy, gathering food for their queen. The grasshoppers still playing and jumping all over and we all know the tale of those two critters and what became of their actions.
Ah, autumn, golden skies full of all types of wings.. the geese flying in formation, honking to each other (that is how they encourage the leader!.. they truly are team players and never criticize each other. My goats are even starting to get their fuzzies back.. winter coats will soon be sported by each.
It was a great weekend to get this work done, the weather was exceptional. High 50s to mid 60s .. with a slight breeze. I get a ton more work done when I don't have to battle heat.... after all I am a northern girl.
I have always loved autumn since I was a little girl. My granddads (both of them) would pile leaves up and let me jump in them until I tired of it.. they knew if they allowed my silliness they would be rewarded at the end of the evening by me being plumb tuckered out.
There is a certain harmony in autumn, the trees dance with the breeze and at the one moment you watch it is as if they sneeze and drop half of their leaves. There is a new joy in my heart, it is as if that young leaf jumper comes alive this time each year.
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. -- Stanley Horowitz
And for gramps: Square testicles! 
An elderly woman walked into the Bank of Canada one morning with a purse full of money. She wanted to open a savings account and insisted on talking to the president of the Bank because, she said, she had a lot of money.
After many lengthy discussions (after all, the client is always right) an employee took the elderly woman to the president's office.
The president of the Bank asked her how much she wanted to deposit. She placed her purse on his desk and replied, '$165,000'. The president w as curious and asked her how she had been able to save so much money. The elderly woman replied that she made bets.
The president was surprised and asked, 'What kind of bets?'
The elderly woman replied, 'Well, I bet you $25,000 that your testicles are square.'
The president started to laugh and told the woman that it was impossible to win a bet like that.
The woman never batted an eye. She just looked at the president and said, 'Would you like to take my bet?'Certainly', replied the president. 'I bet you $25,000 that my testicles are not square.'
'Done', the elderly woman answered. 'But given the amount of money involved, if you don't mind I would like to come back at 10 o' clock tomorrow morning with my lawyer as a witness.' 'No problem', said the president of the Bank confidently.
That night, the president became very nervous about the bet and spent a long time in front of the mirror examining his testicles, turning them this way and that, checking them over again and again until he was positive that no one could consider his testicles as square and reassuring himself that there was no way he could lose the bet.
The next morning at exactly 10 o'clock the elderly woman arrived at the president's office with her lawyer and acknowledged the $25,000 bet made the day before that the president's testicles were square.
The president confirmed that the bet was the same as the one made the day before. Then the elderly woman asked him to drop his pants etc. so that she and her lawyer could see clearly.
The president was happy to oblige.
The elderly woman came closer so she could see better and asked the president if she could touch them. 'Of course', said the president. 'Given the amount of money involved, you should be 100% sure.'
The elderly woman did so with a little smile. Suddenly the president noticed that the lawyer was banging his head against the wall. He asked the elderly woman why he was doing that and she replied,
'Oh, it's probably because I bet him $100,000 that around 10 o'clock in the morning I would be holding the balls of the President of the Bank of Canada !'
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