Finally Fall

My least favorite months are August and September.  August is just way too hot.  Plus we are so busy with fair and getting ready to go back to school that everyone ends up grumpy.  Now September has a cruel sense of humor.  With the tease of kids in school, fall sports, and cooler nights, September just taunts me with the thought of fall, but then hits me with the reality of days in the upper 80's.  I so love the cooler, sweatshirt weather of fall, that the summer lingering heat just makes me angry.  You think I would know better and just take September for the unstable weather month that it is, but I always hold out hope for a good hard freeze, putting the garden to bed, and the lawnmower away.

Monday was the first real day that it truly felt like fall to me.  The sky was overcast (my personal favorite) and I was content to work inside freezing the remainder of the beans that we'd picked from the garden over the weekend.  So I started my chore with a pleasant demeanor.  This slowly faded, as standing on my feet for three hours seemed to get a little mundane.  I took a break, sat down at my computer and noticed a message from my good friend, Paulette.  A bunch of us "sisters" have a trip planned in November to visit Paulie in Portland.  I simply cannot wait!  She wanted to inform us that a great band, The Devil Makes Three, was going to be in town the same weekend that we were and wondered if we were interested in seeing them.

I searched them on the internet, fell in love with their sound, and spent the next few hours snipping beans and listening to everything I could find on youtube.  Their sound is county/bluegrass/folk like. It certainly has hometown feel that added to that "fall in the air" feeling. Thanks for sharing Paulette!  You can check out one of their tunes here!

I am so excited to reunite with all my lovely friends and see this awesome band.  So see ya September, October you can hurry along, I am looking forward to November and the good times to be had!!

A Farewell to Summer

 It's been awhile since I last posted.....a long while.  You see, summer for us is not the laid back, lemonade sipping, sitting on the porch time it is for some.  Summer on the farm is up at 5:30 a.m., pipe moving, thistle digging, sweating, fence moving, cow milking long days.  My job is to support all of the work going on and those doing it.  So, my blogging had to go on hiatus until some of the summer work had ceased.  Now with the kids in school and all of us on some sort of schedule, I can get back to blogging.  I thought I would just share some photos of the highlights of our summer.

What's more fun than jumping with a friend?

July 24th fireworks

Cousin Tate on the Gator

Grandpa's canal floating expedition

Pipe on the pastures

Fonnesbeck family reunion @ Saratoga Springs Wyoming

Family camp out @ Bloomington Lake - beautiful indian paint brush

Breakfast in the wilderness

Bloomington Lake

Summer is definitely one of our busiest times, but it's the time we learn to work together to accomplish big things.  It's the time we make memories together. It's when we see the best and the worst of each other and learn to appreciate our differences.  It's long.  It's hot.  But, I also wouldn't trade it for anything......well, except for a beautiful fall!