Chazd's (Charles Dowdell's) News Burps

I have a cold. I am getting better at dealing with colds. Avoiding over-the-counter remedies is a good first step. Either they don't work or the side effects are worse than the symptoms. I need to use my neti pot more regularly, and avoid life I suppose. So, I got to catch up on YouTube videos, clean the basement. Cook chili, enjoy the fall foliage. We had our first fire for the season. It is not really cold, but the furnace has come on, time to burn wood, not gas.

Fall is in the air here in Georgia. It has been a great fall for weather to be sure. Our roses are doing very well. It appears the deer have decided to eat other tasty bits in the yard besides the rose buds, saving the roses for our pleasure. The dock is now pretty much reconstructed. Small lake. Large dock. A lot of wood. A lot of fasteners. We used 15 gallons of paint. It could probably use another coat too. It was a good day for plane watching/spotting with the helos and army folks with the King Air. We also saw the immediate aftermath of an incident at Athens airport. The word was the nose gear collapsed after continued taxing after a flat tire. Pure hanger talk, but we were there. The airport has two runways so we could use the runway 2-20 as the main runway 9-27 was closed.