Odds and Ends

Here are a few miscellaneous pictures and the occasional odd thought bouncing around inside my head:

Fall has arrived!

Any other person, walking down our road:  "Gosh, those trees sure are pretty!"

Me, walking down the same road:  "Oh no, oh no!!!  Winter's almost here!!!  I don't have the stupid milk house down yet!!  I don't have the west barn wall reinforced!!  I need to put in a supply of shavings and straw!!  There's no pump in the barn well yet!!  We never got a wood stove or a generator...etc, etc"

Sigh.

A couple views of a strange-looking cloud floating by

According to the TV commercials, I'm supposed to tell my doctor to prescribe me the latest drug.  I'm also supposed to tell him what allergies I have and if I have a history of bleeding ulcers.   Then, I need to tell him about the other drugs I'm taking.  Apparently, my doctor is a total moron who should not be allowed to practice medicine.  I should start seeing my television for all my medical care instead.

Everyone here is on a diet lately:

Sasha checks her weight

 So I've started walking with Hadjo a little at a time.  The vet said to start out slow,  let him set the pace according to what's comfortable for his poor knees.  We have gone 1/4 mile so far.  He prefers to walk himself, though:

A pit bull pulling on a leash that's held together with tape.  Not reassuring to strangers.

And he's gotten to where I can just drop the leash altogether and he'll take himself inside:

The pasture is looking a little ratty so late in the year, but the Barn People are still getting plenty of snack time in.  As a matter of fact, they are putting in way more time there now than they did all summer--the frosts and the one freeze we had pretty much killed off the damned bugs.  Most of them, anyhow...

Aaaaaah!!  I didn't get that hayloft closed up over the summer!!

Whatcha doin', Mom?  Got grain?

I just trimmed Bella's bangs and she's irritated because she thinks she looks stupid.

I realized the other day that we could probably eliminate the entire national debt and balance the budget if we just declared a 6-month moratorium on personal injury and class-action lawsuits...

The apple tree is so full of ripe apples now that it's broken off a large branch.  Bad management on our part, but we were distracted by other things.

LOTS of apples!

They are baking apples, not eating apples--they're a little small and pretty tart, but really good.  So far I've picked 2 bins full.  We'll preserve some and pack several bins in straw to give to the Barn People over the winter.  They'll like that.

Well, time to go do something before winter gets here.