Coming To The End

The summer is quickly coming to its end. Things are getting brown and the morning temps are starting to get cooler and it is feeling like fall. You can tell some of the Aspen trees are getting close to changing from green to yellow. The morning temps are getting cooler almost daily and frost is beginning to become a regular thing.

There have been more and more fires popping up around the state and the smoke has been getting thicker. We have been pretty fortunate, up to this point, from the smoke standpoint but it has started getting pretty bad.

This last weekend we made a trip to East Helena to watch Heath’s soccer team hold its preseason scrimmage. They mix the boys and girls teams together for the scrimmage. Heath played goalie for his team and he had a pretty strong game. He got scored on a couple of times but he also made some good saves and had some good kicks from goal. It worked out very nicely that the goal Heath was in was on the end of the field where we parked the van, so the folks had a great vantage point for the whole game from the comfort of the van.

After the game, we went to Cindy and Chad’s house and had pulled pork and mac and cheese to celebrate both Cindy’s and Chad’s Mom Kathy’s birthday.

We have been working on a few things around the place that have to get done before the white flakes start showing up. Chad, Cindy and Case came over yesterday evening and we got Colleen’s trailer put in the machine shed for the winter.

We also got the four wheeler that is used for plowing snow serviced and got the snow blade put back on it. This week we will work on getting the patio cleaned up and patio furniture put away and also on getting the sprinkler system blown out and filled with antifreeze, and the pump pulled from the creek.

Both folks have various Dr appointments this week. So I will be shuttling them to those. Colleen get students back in the classroom tomorrow. Cindy starts back to school today and the boys will also start school tomorrow. Friday afternoon I will take the folks back to East Helena for Heath’s first soccer game of the season.

The barn swallows have left for the season and the gophers have went into hibernation.

I am hoping, god willing to head south myself on September 3rd. Overall, it has been a good summer but I am more than ready to be back in my own home with my own stuff and my own routine. I just so wish Jennifer could have been here to share it with me. She is constantly on my mind. However, that is not to be so I just try to move on, but it is damn tough.