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September 28, 2000 Weather: Sunny and cooler high of 74° predicted. Currently 73 at 3 p.m. Well I haven't been doing anything outside at all. I don't even think I've walked around looking at things but maybe once every two weeks.  I'm like that though. My gardening impulses run from December to June with time off for rest and rejuvenation.  I've been more interested in the harvesting patterns this year, watching the tobacco fields become naked, the defoliating chemicals applied to the cotton so it can be harvested. Right now I drive by fields that have gorgeous orange lumps laying in them. The sweet potatoes are being harvested.  There have been no hurricanes for us so far this year and since Hurricane season is almost over, I don't think we'll have any. We did have rain from a few, one of them being Helene but no wind or anything like that.  It has been a very temperate and forgiving summer for it being Eastern North Carolina.  I don't think the temperatures have been over 100 degrees for very many days at all when last year it was the norm for almost 2 months.  The Sedum 'Autumn Joy' is in full beautiful bloom. I saw a Praying Mantis on the one out front a few weeks ago. The butterflies have been loving them too.  I'm not real sure about what is going on to be quite honest but Stuart thinks the 'Henryi' Clematis has died. Maybe it'll shoot up some new stalks next spring.  It has been cool for about two weeks now but this week especially at nights. It is going down into the 40's and it isn't' even October yet. How cool! I'm ready for winter. To hibernate and to rest. It has been a long and trying spring and summer and the yard has made great strides in growth. It looks like real yard and not just an accident.    October 2, 2000 Weather: Sunny and high of 76° predicted. A Crossvine, a Veronica 'Sunny Border Blue', Clematis 'Madame de Bouchard', 4 Rudbeckia 'Goldstrum', 2 yellow 'Mum's, Penstemon 'Husker Red'.  I picked those up for some web work I've done and planted them. The Mum's are sitting on my front steps, the Rudbeckia's are in the Grapevine bed and the rest in my newest large perennial bed and the clematis is planted at the base of a steel cable in the back corner.  And the Clematis that Stuart thought was dead has a bunch of new growth coming from out of the ground. We aren't sure why but the thing keeps coming and going like it is dying and then coming back, dying and coming back. I have no idea why it is doing this.  I trimmed back the Variegated Wiegela and the basil and the Variegated Solomon's Seal in the Front Entryway garden. It looks so nice right now. Oh and we finally planted a small gardenia that was given to us by his Aunt Lellon for Erica's birth.  I am really pleased how that bed is shaping up and filling out. I need some current pictures of it.  --------- The pump died on us for the pond so it has been sitting silent for about a month now and it is really green. The goldfish don't seem to mind though and they are getting fat as pigs.  We moved the ficus tree, which has been living on the front porch all summer, back into the house. The temperatures have been getting too low in the nights.  It looks so nice out there now with the Mums and being cleaned up.    October 4, 2000 Weather: Sunny and high of 86° predicted. Well it turned hot the past few days. Yuck! I'm ready for fall and cool weather all the way! Maybe this is our Indian Summer and it will get cold and stay that way soon.  I noticed the Dogwood trees yesterday while driving down a residential street in town. The berries are abundant this year and are a fire engine red. The leaves have started turning color also and are taking on a purplish hue.

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