I’m up early this morning…. I have a few things to do before I head down to the office this morning (where I’ll be all day and probably 1/2 the night).  It’s a quarter till 7 AM and finally beginning to get light out.    We’ve had a week of almost record-breaking high temperatures but I think the cooler weather is now headed this way.  A band of rain showers moved through last night which is followed by a ;ittle cool front.  I could tell the difference when I left the office last night (after 10 PM) to drive home.  Even though the roads were still wet, the air had a cooler, almost drier feel…   But it will not stay dry for long as we have another band of rain that is going to be moving through today:

I was so hoping that “the project” that I’m working on would be complete enough so that I could have my weekend off…. well, that isn’t the case unfortunately.  I’ll be going in to the office today and tomorrow… so much for this weekend, eh?

I am just so wanting to get outside and spend the day in my garden!  I have so many things that I want to do - like PLANT!  LOL  But, for now, I’m committed to this project and everything else will have to go on hold.  One thing I know for sure, after this project is completed, it will be a cold day in h-e-double hockey sticks before I even think once, much less twice of volunteering for such a time consuming task.  Every day that I’m at the office, all I can think about is how much I would rather be outside in my garden than sitting in an office in front of a computer and paperwork.  Just thank goodness I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Well, it’s light enough to go outside… I’m going to feed and visit all of the animals this morning :-)   I’m checking my chickens to see if they are beginning to molt.  With the changing amounts of daylight hours and the onset of fall, they should start molting any day now.  This will also mean a very sharp decline in the number of eggs they lay.  Molting is a natural process in the life of a chicken - it will just be the first time that my chickens (or ME) have gone through it LOL

Hope that you have a great weekend!  And that you can get out and do some work in your garden (dig a shovel full of dirt for me!!).