This past summer, shortly after my last blog post, I made a purchase offer on a remodeled 1875 farm house. A few months ago I moved in. It's on a bank of Fish Creek in central New York. Below are some photos of my back yard.
A foggy October. Where's the creek?? 
Late fall view with my friends, the geese. 
If you look closely at the photo above, just on the edge of the near bank you might barely make out two geese -- one's white, the other is a typical Canada goose. The Canada goose has an injured wing, but the white goose remains its faithful companion. Sometimes they waddle up the bank and seek shelter near my garage. I'm delighted they feel safe on my property.
In case you're wondering, there is a connection between Fish Creek and Wood Creek, which I wrote about so enthusiastically in my post from July. Before the canal was built, the two small rivers joined together before emptying into Oneida Lake. More about this in future posts!
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The joys, and lack thereof, of moving!
This photo is from October. It's now December and some of these still remain packed! 
Some of us are less phased by chaos than others.
By my mom, Mary Wielt 
By yours truly
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Central New York has some wonderful, historic cemeteries, and several of them offer tours, especially around Halloween. Most of the tours were canceled this year, but the Oneida Community in Sherrill, NY, still held theirs in October. It was a great opportunity to get out and enjoy some CNY ambience.
The tour guides did an outstanding job highlighting the graves and notable contributions of many of the cemetery's residents 
I was so happy to run into one of my retired work colleagues, Sharie Sblendorio, on the tour.
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In September I was pleased to returned to my job as a middle school librarian after taking the previous school year off to help care for my dad. Students can still do research and borrow books despite the pandemic because lots of useful databases and collections of eBooks are online. I teach students how to find, evaluate, and apply these resources to their projects and for their own interest. Here I am in the library's little office/storage room this past Election Day.
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Turns out I love shopping for used furniture and appliances.
One of two identical mid-century platform rockers I found and purchased for my sun room at Salvation Army. New cushions in progress 
Art Nouveau chandelier for my home library, pictured here where I found it, at Syracuse Antiques Exchange.
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Here's hoping we can all take the best parts of 2020 with us into 2021 and leave everything else behind. This is my deepest wish for all of you!
Happiest of Holidays and a Happy, Healthy New Year!
