Changeing weather into Fall

Fall is most assuredly here.  There has been a cooling down of the temps and a bright sun it the morrring sky.  Oh and don't forget to night there will be a full moon. 
I remember that when Fall came Mother and Mary would pull out the wool blankets from the cedar chests or the old mothballs.  They would hang them full length on the lines so they could air them out.  But, I don't think, that the smell of mothballs will ever loose its heavy smell.  This was the beginning of Fall cleaning in the house.  Windows were washed inside and out and the curtains were taken to the cleaners.  The furnace was then cleaned by RJ Smith and oil was ordered Thur Blue Ridge Oil company.
 Dad would get all the garden tools cleaned up and he would have Paul Barns sharpen them before Dad would put them away.  All but the rake.  That would soon be in great demand with all the tree leaves to rake up.  Then Dad would put up the stakes around his azaleas and his box woods.  Which he then would wrap and nail the burlap around.  then as the leaves would start falling he would work in the yard raking when he had time.  He then would place the leaves in the area between the burlap sides all the way around the azalea beds. I would get out there after classes and help him work in that yard.  I use to love playing in the dirt.  LOL.  Oh and now we were ready for the first frost.
The local churches would have in the kitchens baked goods and hot cocoa and cider after church each Sunday.  Oh my those baked goods  were very good.  Those ladies worked hard on the Saturday before Sunday church.
In Frederick there were many Fall things to do.  We would help our neighbours to gather nuts and work in the gardens to finish up gleaming them for winter.  Bigger boys would help their fathers cut and deliver wood to alot of Frederick family's.  They would go door to door seeing if anyone needed wood.  My Dad would always get wood from the same man each year.  The schools had Home Coming and Football games and parades with floats then we had bond fires. 
We really could not wait till October and Halloween then there was the next holiday Thanks Giving.  Oh my what a Fall we would all have! 

HAPPY FALL YA ALL!!!!