I feel rushed...

The bare dirt circle in the lawn makes me sad, but I know that the pool will rise again next June. At least, I pin my hopes on that. Today, I will finishing deflating pool floats and so on and stow the toys away. It's time to accept that autumn is knocking rather insistently. The tomato vines are withering and browning, and I still have some faith that the butternut squashes will mature-- we have about five of them, and I love squash, so... keep good thoughts, eh? 

I'll leave the carrots for a while longer-- they can endure until a frost, anyhow. The beans have slowed, but we might get one more meal's-worth out of them. Soon enough, we'll be picking the apples and pears. 

But today, the weather is supposed to be warm and lovely again. The last two days have been hovering around 80 degrees, which I think might be the last hurrah of summer-like temperatures. Nights are still in the 40s. Mornings are dark. 

I need to settle in and work on the field trip I have scheduled for just under three weeks from now. Paperwork must be filed and so on. I think I will have some time to do that today, if I'm lucky. I can't imagine why I thought it was a great idea to pile on a big project in the first three weeks of school, but here we are. 

I feel really rushed, actually-- harvest, home, work-- and I can't seem to catch up. Well, at least a lot of the "home" part is under control, due to me cleaning everything this past weekend. And I'm caught up on dicing and freezing tomatoes (did that last night). But I never got spring stuff done, let alone summer or fall. I guess those things will have to wait another year. Pruning back shrubs and weed control-- yeah, that didn't happen. 

We can only do what we have energy to do, right?

I hope you have a good day. Hug your loved ones. 

C



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