first thawing of the fingers and toes

I'm not sure when I blinked and missed it, but summer is gone now. the nights are bitterly cold blowing through my terribly insulated bedroom. the days are beautifully mild with white puffy clouds slowly rolling by. Work is terribly boring, trying to stare at the few remaining plants we have to make them pretty enough to try to sell. My hours are cut to almost nothing, which is tough because the less time I'm at work, the more money I spend with all my free time.

In good news, the house project just got catapulted into actually commencing again thanks to the impending wedding and a million people staying at my place. Ironically though, once we started working on it again, dad decided to get a new paint job on the truck so.. yeah, don't have any way of getting supplies over 8 feet.
I ran over my puppy today. Pretty weird. Just in a golf cart though and I kinda feel like it was a bit of my fault. While she's amazing and a fast learner and being such a good dog, she has this tendency to stop in front of you when you're walking, but then again, walking doesn't hurt as much as a motorized vehicle. She did the same thing with the golf cart, ran around it and then stopped in front. I yelled "no" at her, which made her look at me and in that moment, she went under the tires, all paws and fur tumbling under the weight. Lucky for me, the ground was soft with recent rain and her puppy body is pretty resiliant... and it wasn't a freaking car. So she's sleeping it off on the couch now. I can see her heart pumping through her ear that is starting to stand up. She's going to puppy school and has been a good student so far, learning the trade of hearding while occasionally getting a mouth full of wool when the trainer isn't looking.

Things have calmed down after the CSA harvest fest. I am constantly sleepy and probably getting sick. Jason has to occasionally remind me to stay calm, which I always appreciate. We're battling coon and weasels on the chicken hosue front and our flock is dwindling. Our last CSA straggler is picking up today and then all the veggies that come out of the garden from now until frost will be all ours. With night time temps dropping into the thirties by the end of the week, I'm not sure how long everything will last.