September 26, 2016 9:00 a.m.

Almost everyone I know has been waiting anxiously for Fall this year!  Although it still looks like Summer, Fall officially began last week.  The leaves have been  falling like they are anxious to get it over with too, even though they haven't started to change into the beautiful fall colors yet.  This morning the temperature is 49 degrees, the coolest it has been for months!  Hooray for Fall (I hope).  

It has been hard to not think of Fall since the Halloween candy has been on the shelf at Walmart since the end of August.  I always wonder how on earth anyone would be anble to purchase Halloween candy this early and expect it to last until Halloween!  With my love for candy it is impossible to even buy it the day before Halloween and expect it to last for the little goblins! One of my Facebook friends actually posted a picture from K Mart showing the Christmas Tree Display being prepared!

For the past few months we have all been wearing summer clothes and this morning I gleefully put on my favorite KU Sweatshirt and blue jeans!  What a wonderful feeling!  I think I may pick up the quilt I was making last winter and finish it, since Fall is teasing us, and even make Chili for Supper!

Do you think I would be going too far if I  put on Christmas music?

Adventures in Chicken land

We were surprised to hear the sounds of egg laying coming from the co-op with our 3 month old Plymouth Rock hens today!  I hurried out to the co-op and found a small egg laying on the floor and curious hens pecking at it as if to say "what is it!"  I scooped up the still warm egg and saved it from a sure fate of being cracked!  They all looked a little guilty so I couldn't tell who the egg laying lady was!

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Straw Bale Gardening~the planting

I planted two cherry tomato plants, 1 cucumber,6 assorted peppers and some lettuce last night in the straw bales. The pepper plant came with a free Lady Bug! Now for the growing! I need to water every day, the bales tend to dry out faster than if the plants were in the ground.

Straw Bale Gardening

My straw bales have been sitting for 10 days and are ready to plant. I have been doing quite a bit of research on straw bale gardening. It is for people that can't get down on their knees for long. I am anxious to see if I can make it work! It has been pretty cool the past couple of days, after having some beautiful spring weather. I am looking forward to planting my vegetables. I plan on posting my successful or non-successful venture.

Kimberly's Birthday Party

We celebrated Kimberly's 37th Birthday Party on May 1 (her Birthday is the 3rd)! Allison brought a wonderful Ice Cream Cake from Dairy Queen and we had Kimberly's traditional dinner of Taco Salad. Yummy!

We also started a fire in the Fire Pit and roasted Marshmellows., it was an interesting time with three little kids..aged 2,3 and 4. Josephine decided she would just rather have marshmellows uncooked and Henry was bound and determined to catch his on fire. Jacob was a little scared of the whole process but managed to have quite a few even then. Cody tried to act totally bored like a 16 year old should be but decided to jump in to the activities anyway.