gearing up for fall...

are you ready?

its coming...

just a few weeks and this will be the busiest place in town...

I am not ready but I am ready for a change...

it feels like the summer was so short...

since we seemed to have spring forever...

football season is about to begin...

been watching the guys practice behind the school...

and look what came last night...

a late birthday cake for me...

its as evil as it looks...

going to chop it up today and put most of it in the freezer...

Craig's ex girlfriend made it for me and dropped it off...

while he was working last night...

I think I am good for chocolate for some time now...

Craig survived the busy college move in day...

and now has his 2 days off, so got to move while I have help...

goulash on the stove for supper...

babies fed and cage cleaned...

more to go...

have a good day...

;0)

cloudy day cruisin'...

another building on Main Street...

a friend of ours runs this now...

it housed the newspaper years ago...

then sat empty for a number of years...

not sure what all has been in here from 1910...

a project to do, for sure...

and the next building to it...

all the old awning hardware is still on most of the buildings...

we have old photos of the awnings up and of them down...

the cold front did go through and cool us off...

got down to 58 last night...

had to find a sweater this morning...

these are all up and down the streets around the school...

this one is on the street that runs beside the football field...

there is one for every guy on the team...

its almost time for football to start...

and fall harvest will be right behind it...

I thought it was fitting to show both in one shot...

it was another day of clouds...

awesome clouds...

do you know what that means?

the ears drop when they are ready to pick...

all they have to do is wait for it to all dry out...

its coming soon...

you might want to dig out the fall stuff...

doing brunch here right now...

got feeders to do again and one a little sickly on me..

hand feeding her...

I have a goal of doing just a tiny bit more every day...

without flaring...

the farmers around here will be hauling in on Labor Day...

heard our town elevator is offing half off on drying...

and there will be a few who take them up on it...

I need to get moving here...

have good days where ever you are...

find something good in what you see and do...

give a smile to everyone you meet...

someone just might be having a bad day and need one...

;0)

back later...

been trying to catch up after taking a day off and then taking a sick day...

and here it is the middle of the week already...

didn't have to do this today...

we finally got some rain...

just a third of an inch last night...

but there's a 50% chance tonight again...

the corn is drying out in the fields now...

and there's that rustling sound happening...

the fall flowers are starting to happen...

I have been having a hard time finding the pretty in things the last few weeks...

I just wasn't seeing it like I usually do...

so I prayed for it back...

and grabbed my camera and out I went...

its been here all along...

I just didn't see it...

got leaves down already...

I like sedum... 

need to thin this out and spread it around more...

this knock out is getting its tail feathers cut way back this fall...

it has not produced very well this year...

this is what we did with the bricks we hauled home...

we will let this settle through the winter...

then pull them up and put sand under them in the spring...

we had 70s today...

a nice break from the hot...

had a coyote walk right through the middle of the yard just before noon today...

I was over here picking tomatoes...

Craig walked around the back of the house...

and there it was...

a great big one...

went into the corn field...

those are green bean blooms...

I am not where I was a year ago...

I have lost some ground...

planting hoes...

I will let you know when I put the hardware store out of business...

these are the kind of clouds we have had today...

so going to be working on me more...

if there are not a lot of posts sometimes...

just know I need the time to do what I need to...

to get back going again...

so I feel better...

and can do more...

;0)