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The Bunch Finally Get Fall

 

I did not plant these Morning Glories, but I really like them. I think they are beautiful.

The summer heat has FINALLY subsided. This September smashed the record for number of 100 + degree days, by double! I was still running the misters for the animals until this week. I have NEVER in a decade of having the farm animals ever had to have the misters up until October! This week finally brought us some seriously needed rain and much deserved cooler temperatures. Unfortunately, we have had 7 inches of rain in 3 days with 6.23 being in about 5 hours. It has turned our pasture into a quick sand mud pit.

 Unfortunately, our little sweet donkey hurt her back leg trying to pull it out of the mud so I am dealing with that. Hopefully, she'll pull through. She's not really wanting to stand up now or really eat so I am going out every 4 hours to give her some mush I make with her pellets. She seems to like that plus I can hide her medicine in it 😂 We are now down to about 12 chickens. Nothing nefarious has happened. They are just getting old. Our youngest ones are now 4 and our oldest are 7 so most of them are too old to lay eggs, plus they are all molting now anyways, so they are mostly just pets and we get our eggs from Sam's. 

Poor Gwen! 

T is doing well in school. He is at a less intense spot in the semester so he is enjoying a little down time during the day now. A is busy with work and going out to do stuff with her boyfriend. I take a biking class with her once a week. She goes a lot more, but I try to go with her at least once a week so we can do something together. It's kind of becoming a fun thing we do. We go to our class and then hit up the coffee house for some drinks afterwards.

C and H have an induction date set for November 29 if she hasn't gone into labor before then. It's so exciting! I can't wait to meet my grandbaby!! Baby Wesley is on the smaller side. He is in the 28th percentile for weight. I might need to get some premmie sizes for him. Newborn will probably be too big. A is super excited! In fact, I have had to tell her to stop buying baby stuff. Between her and I, we have a mountain of baby stuff! We are giving them it all this weekend and the boys are super excited that they will have the music room back. 

D and I don't have any trips planned this month because D has a lot of overtime coming up, but he did take a whole week off at Thanksgiving so we will probably go somewhere then. Maybe the kids can join us again. We have decided that next year we are going to try to set a few days aside around the same time every year to vacation with the family. As the kids have their own families, it would be nice to have something to look forward to each year that's not competing with shared holidays, plus it's always more fun to vacation with family. It makes for fun memories. We have loved meeting family in different cities for adventures over the years! It is some of our favorite memories.

A's boyfriend got her a build a bear for her birthday. She dressed it up as Aurora. It's super cute and smells like strawberries.

We enjoyed our first rainy day in over 2 monthes. We watched a movie and relaxed.


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