We are gradually returning to almost normal.  It’s been weeks and weeks, but today we are making some sort of headway.

Yesterday the Dog Days of summer ended!  Along with that ending we have started seeing trees showing up with yellow leaves.  The nights are cool enough I need to shut the windows in the early morning.  Usually August is hot, but we are not seeing that here and now.  It is feeling like September already.  What a strange year this has been.

The pinto beans are ready for harvest.  Terry finished the last set of water last week to allow the soil under the plants to dry out so he can start pulling them.  He thinks the last week of August he will start pulling the plants so they can dry and he can combine them.

Where has summer gone?

Ever since Misty got sick and we got lots and lots of company I have been in a holding pattern.  Whenever I get into that ‘just treading water place” I seem to have bad dreams of drowning.

But today I took a nap…and really slept. I also got almost four weeks of lawn mowed and the edges around the yard taken care of…you just don’t know how nice that is until you can’t find time to get to it. I am also getting my laundry caught up.  Tomorrow I will go shopping everything I had has been eaten up… 🙂

Misty went back to work this afternoon, with our family doctor’s blessing.  We are waiting now for her appointment with the neurologist in Grand Junction.  He comes highly recommended so we have lots of hope.

The grandchildren will continue to stay with us during the day until each of their respective schools start, after that Terry and I will be back to normal.

Knock on wood.

The field corn is starting to dent — goodness this summer seems to have flown by while we waited for answers from the Doctors.

Once more I thank you for staying connected for your emails, and comments and concern.

Your friend,

Linda