Spanky's Clubhouse

October is almost over and the leaves have been falling and we have been raking. Finally some beautiful weather outside here in the midwest. The leaves are letting go for their purpose is now over. We too, must learn to let go and release things that are no longer useful. This is the time when we must surrender ourselves as Joyce Rupp says in some of her books. Look forward in our life and see what lies ahead as we continue on our journey. Another year is passing as I just realized another birthday yesterday and so I am thankful for another year and must let go again as time marches forward never backward. Oh, the beauty of fall with all of the colors of the trees, the crispness of the air is so refreshing and relief from the heat of summer, different things for different seasons. My daughter is in Texas and she misses the changing of the colors of the trees. Oh the things we miss when we don't have them but when we are right here in the midst of the beautiful trees we hardly notice them. The colors aren't so brilliant this year and I don't know why that is - some years vivid colors and other years more dull. The squirrels are scurrying to put away food for the winter. Are they hiding their nuts in the trees or in the ground? Some say you can predict the harshness of the winter by where the squirrels hid their food. In the tree means a harsh, snowy winter, in the ground a mild winter. I guess that makes sense as the squirrels don't have shovels to dig through the snow to find their nuts.