Autumn is Here!

Happy Fall Everyone!

It's time for cooler weather, sweaters, first hot chocolates of the year(!), reading good books, and an overall slower season of life for us!  We have been able to cross some things off of our family "To-Do" list, which has been nice, like cutting down the trees in our backyard that shade our pool.

We also split all of last years wood and were able to stack this year's too so that it can be drying out for next year!

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We have been able to get one of our attic's cleaned which feels really good.  We had a lot of material up there which we were saving just in case we felt like making quilts or things, but we finally went through it all and narrowed it down from about nine big storage bins to four!  

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Our fall garden got planted this past week....in pots!  Our garden spot wasn't ready, and the only things that we wanted to plant were broccoli and cabbage, so we are trying it in pots.  We will see how that works out; so far, so good!
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We don't ever seem to have time in the spring to do a good spring cleaning due to our busy kidding season, so we did some thorough "Fall Cleaning" this past week.

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This Fall's Herb Faire was a success at the end of September.  It truly was a lovely day for the festival!

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Working with Mist, our new Border Collie, has proven to be quite rewarding!  She is picking things up very quickly and in one month I can already rely on her to get the goats in their pen with me without having to remind her exactly what she's supposed to be doing.  She is so smart!  What did we ever do without her???

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It's also that time of year that Dad's pool and pond customers are wanting their pools closed up, so we have been doing a few of those each week as well as cleaning out a few ponds already this fall.

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With the arrival of the cooler weather, we have been able to keep our windows open during the day (yippee!) and most nights as well.  It's been nice to be able to hear the quiet chirping of the crickets, the beautiful calls of the birds, (I especially love it when the whippoorwills come out), and the howling of the coyotes in the not-too-distant woods.  

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So,...what is your favorite part of autumn?


"To everything there is a season,
                           A time for every purpose under heaven..."
-Ecclesiastes 3:1