…from the wind, of which there was more than enough.

Apart from reading, and cooking (Chicken Francese) the central project, for me at least, was the late fall gutter clean-out (after all Vi’s Bradford Pear leaves had finished clogging them). (Note: never plant a Bradford Pear.) Whenever I was up on the ladder facing north and south I asked Sue to hold the device while I ascended, fearful that the extreme west-wind would send me sideways.