Oops. Missed the Equinox

So I've taken a vacation from the blog. I'm back. Lots of things have happened in the last week or two. Unky Herb (UH) is back from his trip to China with about a thousand photos. The slide show is almost ready and has been cut to a much smaller number.

The Prairie Princess (PP) spent two weeks up north working, collecting grass seeds and driving a tractor with a manual transmission. It's part of her job. Her second week was curtailed by this big rain storm that seems to be taking over the state. She's back in town. St Paul has 2-3 inches of new water, but there are places in the state with more than a foot. The powers, that are allowed to, have declared that there may be a flood in the big river in town. It's been a strange fall.

I took these photos a couple of days ago at Afton State Park, over by the St Croix River. There weren't many folks there - school is in session and it was a marginal day weather wise. They have a nice array of benches there and a pretty good size river that empties a few miles south in to the Mississippi.



The leaves are beginning to turn and some are brown and dead enough to fall to earth. I had a short sit down on this comfy looking structure.



Lots of tennis action, but nothing very exciting to report. I've been playing pretty well - something that happens if you play four or five times a week. Tonight I played at Wooddale with Jerry and the hardcore girls. The club has a bad problem when it rains this much. Court 1 had water standing on it, which the pro and Josh, the guy at the desk, wet vacuumed up, and sent us to court 4 to play. Even court 4 had some standing water when we left as the the rain continued to fall. I think they need to get a bigger sump pump. We split a couple of sets and called it good enough.

I went to Yang's Chinese Restaurant and bought some Singapore Rice Noodles to share with PP and UH. Spicy, but pretty tasty.