September!

I'm really not quite sure where August went, but with it seems to have gone summer.  Frosty mornings have greeted us for the last few days, and it's getting dark soon after 8 pm now.  Last fall the aspens turned spectacular shades of gold, so far this year they're turning brown...I believe it has to do with the level of infestation of the aspen leaf-miner, the little wormy critter responsible for turning the aspens shades of silvery-gray some years.

All here are well...the chickens are happily laying 10 or 11 eggs each morning.  It's never hard to find takers for the eggs...sometimes I have to remember to keep some for us!  Buck and Rupert are fine...I couldn't find Rupert this morning and had to go looking.  Zoey and Jasper and I found him happily munching beside the root cellar door...I must put up a root cellar post soon!

Zoey had an ear check at the vet on Tuesday...her ears continue to improve, but are not cleared up yet.  Two more weeks of ear drops, oral antibiotics, and a course of prednisone are in order.  She is becoming a little more settled each day and is adorable.

Molly the cat disappeared five days ago; I had pretty much given up on seeing her again and was about to report her demise, but she arrived home about an hour ago in a wind/rain storm, and other than being quite hungry seems unscathed.

Who sez cats shouldn't go on vacation?

Mike and Cody are in Winnipeg tonight, heading for South Carolina!