The fall wreath is reconstructed and hanging in the door. I am taking a break.

Break over. Emptied the second three-tier planter and all of the plants in the pockets of the soft show rack. That made a nice place for small plants--mostly strawberries this year. Next year I will start all of those pockets and the tiered planters with fresh soil and vermiculite.

The hurricanes have dominated the news but I have only skimmed the stories on line. I don't need all of the minute and grim details to know it is bad and won't get better very soon. For many it will be a long term disaster that will affect them for years. We did watch the national news last night but found it frustrating. The stories seemed so repetitive and when the segments got to be about 2 minutes long sandwiched between five minutes of repetitive commercials on each side we turned it off. The commemorations of 9/11 were also at the top of the news feed and that is another story I can do without. It has been 16 years; we need to let it go. However, it serves the aims of powers that be to keep it alive because it rekindles the fear they so need us to feel. Otherwise we might begin to question the need for this "national security state" we live in and whether we are any more "secure" than we were before 9/11.