only 18 more weekends until...

christmas!

I read it online today, so it must be so...

I am so not ready...

you know its been a bad summer when the weeds have over taken the tiller...

its gotten pretty dern hot here...

but there are cooler days coming soon...

just one more real hot one today...

and hoping that's all we have to do...

forecasting high 70s...

for August?

for real?

good thing I never put all of the winter clothes up...

you just never know... 

when you might need a sweater or warm socks...

the days are sailing by so fast...

and the summer is going to be gone in about 3 weeks...

are you ready?

got fall plans?

gardeners are always looking ahead on what has to be done before the next phase...

I have caught myself in that mode already...

which is getting pruned and how much?

what's going at the end of the season and what will I keep around?

where is this going to go next year?

I think I need to get more deck time in when it cools off...

looking forward to the 60s nights again and hanging out on that bed out there...

if...

I can get all the cats off of it...

not sure what this week will bring...

but hope its better than last...

;0)

have a great day!

what can you find down a simple country road here?

well, there's plenty...

there are the crops...

corn and soy beans mainly around us...

and then there's cows...

big cows and little cows...

mama and baby cows, but dad is close by...

but mainly black angus beef cattle run the fields here...

there's weeds...

plenty of weeds...

and not the kind you roll and smoke, either...

these are legit weeds...

(well, there might be a tad bit of the other around, too, I just haven't seen any)

and trees...

old, twisted by the winds trees...

and groves of them that once surrounded a farm house...

long gone now, but the shade remains...

and we have all kinds of wild life here...

a bright eyed doe was eating supper the other night when we were driving around...

if you whistle, they will look up at you...

the kids are camping in the yard this weekend...

Craig helped a friend move...

DH worked half a day yesterday...

and we went for a drive in the afternoon...

in the heat, without ac and I got sick...

still feeling nasty...

I did finish the meds up yesterday, so that might be part of it...

hoping this goes away soon...

Hope you have a good day...

going to just hang out, do laundry, some cooking and cleaning...

napping, too...

got that on the list...

;0)

going up for adoption this weekend...

baby 1...

baby 2...

baby 3...

baby 4...

we didn't name them, just call babies and they come running...

got the photo shoot done yesterday and today will be baths and some serious posting on facebook...

this one is already adopted...

thank you, Lord, for giving me the ability to take these babies...

raise them up...

and find them homes...

adopt from a shelter or rescue...

never 'buy' a pet...

spay and neuter!

;0)

have a good weekend!

another week going, going...will be gone...

still bottle feeding one wee one...

and Craig named him Bender...

poor guy...

today we start working on getting the 4 bigger ones ready for their new homes...

baths and photos and all that fun...

I am hoping you are all getting some cooler weather now...

we are better here...

I still stayed in most of the day yesterday...

out of habit, more or less...

we need to water the garden this morning and there will be no mowing this weekend...

its hasn't grown half an inch this week...

no ice cream cone last night...

DH was just too tired to do anything but eat, take his shower and head for bed...

there's not to much to do here, yet everything needs something tended to...

I know that doesn't make much sense...

there's not much to do that doesn't take a whole lot of gumption...

and gumption is what I am lacking this summer...

it has to be the weather...

the bugs are finally better here...

so that's nice...

you can go out the door without being mobbed by them...

not one skeeter bite in over a week now...

;0)

Have a good day...

be blessed and be happy...

;0)

and don't forget the chocolate...

its always better with chocolate...

it was a blogger kind of a day...

I spent so much need time on the computer yesterday...

checking up on some old friends here on blogger...

sorry I have neglected my visits this summer...

changed up some things on here, too...

put my comments back to a pop up because its so much easier for me...

for the one who wanted the embedded version, all you need to do is small screen the comment box and you can see the blog again...

I put on a new player list, too...

for your listening pleasure...

and I even put it on shuffle so you won't or shouldn't hear the same song every time you stop by...

it was another hot one...

so spent the time in the air conditioning...

don't you just love central air?

one of the best inventions of all time...

these are some shots from the other night...

a drive on the way to get another ice cream cone...

good thing summer is half gone...

more or less...

my hips are wide enough...

we get ours at the pool here in town...

and they close after Labor Day...

it was a short night...

DH is starting out on the 5am mornings now...

not cool getting up at 3am...

not sure what is happening here today...

but it will be inside...

and it depends on how many naps I take...

getting close to harvest time...

we dread it here...

too many hours...

not enough sleep, time together...

we just don't seem to roll with the punches like we used to...

another sign of getting old...

;0)