Showing posts with label farm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farm. Show all posts

Monday, October 18, 2010

autumn breezes

 We've spent a lot of time at our farm this autumn.  We had a farm party complete with hot dogs & marshmellows roasted over an open fire and then watched the kids race around playing hide-n'-seek while trying to avoid running through cow-patties in the dark, armed merely with flashlights.  (Somebody's cows ventured into our farm yard earlier in the week of the farm party and I was "dismayed" to discover that they don't use pooper-scoopers for cow deposits!)

Later in September, the girls have enjoyed bouncing around while riding in the 1957 Land Rover after they helped pick the potato harvest.  (We had blight this year so our potato crop has been affected.)

We've been busy getting ready for Halloween.  The girls did most of the Halloween decorating this year.  My dh strongly dislikes tolerates having the Christmas Halloween tree in the hallway for a full 30+ days before Halloween so we decorated it just for him.  (He knows that this tree will be following him into the nursing home & we will decorate it seasonally for him there too!)  I am so glad that I got those glass decorations on sale following Halloween last year!

Meanwhile, I've been working up a storm, including evenings and weekends on family law files.  It has been an exhausting autumn but we've got a lot done!

Sunday, September 26, 2010

autumn weekend

We had such a cool and wet spring and summer this year!  I've been waiting (impatiently) for some warm days this autumn and this weekend seemed to have been the first sunny one in a long time!

We made great use of today's sun.  My sister-in-law and her family were supposed to come to get their cattle off our pasture land today so I packed up some lemonade and pumpkin muffins and we headed out to the farm hoping to see some cattle wrangling with riders on horseback!

While waiting for them to arrive, we tried to fly kites but the wind wouldn't cooperate!

We noticed how the frost caused the trees to lose their leaves but the grass remains green due to all the moisture this year!  Unfortunately, the frost wasn't harsh enough to kill the mosquitos!

We checked out our crop!

The afternoon ended with disappointment as my sister-in-law had vehicle problems so the girls and I came home for supper.  Still, it was a lovely day!