October

Hello Everyone.

My mind just cannot seem to get in a blogger mood. What's up with that?  I always have something to say, but lately I feel like what I write is a repeat of last year. Simply put: The garden is done. The flowers are gone, looking pretty ugly now with their seedy heads which means the work is not done. I need to spend some time cutting back the dead growth. Another day for that, too. The Head Gardener has been in the mountains all month. He comes home on the weekends. This is the last week to hunt the Rocky Mountain big horn ram that he has been in pursuit of all month. So far the rams seems to know that he is lurking in the bushes. In his absence, I have been Head of Everything.

I reported to him yesterday that we had lost another hen. Disappeared. Just disappeared. There is hole underneath the hen house, too small for a hen to escape, but we speculated that a skunk must have taken her. Then last night when I decided to lock them up for the night, which I had not been doing because I don't like to go out at 0'dark:30, I saw her. I knew her by her limp. She hadn't disappeared into thin air or been abducted by a skunk. I just can't count.

Today I had planned on staying home all day, but no. I am about to run out of chicken scratch, so that means a trip to Ft. Collins to get feed which means that I can go to Old Town and do some serious window shopping.

I thought about doing a post on You Can Tell It's Fall When. . .



 . . .You can hear the school kids screaming, laughing, yelling on the near by football field on a brilliant fall day. What a gorgeous sight: school kids, the American flag, spacious skies, amber waves of  grain, and purple mountain majesties.

. . .The last of roses has bloomed.

. . . You switch from flip flops to walking shoes; from shorts to leggings. 

Then you know surely it must be fall.

On another note, has anyone told you that your sidebar jumps or bounces. I have. I googled the problem and found that the malady has several causes: bad html which can be fixed, but it is a real pain to locate or the Followers widget is in the wrong place, moving may help. I have removed my Bronco logo since Jen@ Muddy Boot Dreams alerted me of my problem. I am hoping that the sidebar no longer bounces. Let me know.

Well, I guess I did pull of a post of some sorts. I am off to the feed store: dog chews, horse chow, and chicken scratch. 

The Head Gardener owes me. Big Time. 

Have a fabulous October. Here we will be celebrating birthdays: Great Grandpa will 85, Ellie will be 8, Boone will be 1, and my dear brother, well let's just say he's celebrating. 

Thanks for stopping by. Love your sweet comments.