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Is it really fall, finally?

Submitted entry: Perhaps it is - it cooled down a lot today and is going to drop to 30 tonight. The wind also has a sort of bite to it that it didn’t have yesterday. I’m thrilled - it’s about time we got some real weather. I feel like I struggled through this past summer knowing that there was winter coming. Then when fall wasn’t coming I felt cheated or something. So anyway, it’s looking up - the weather’s getting cold just the way we like it.

This morning I did a bit of web work, took a shower and then went back to the yurt to relieve Sage who had three people coming over from the Bryant Creek Watershed project to talk about the web site redesign that is in progress. Sage is doing most of the work and nearly all the working with them so I was going to hang out with Paul for the afternoon.

So when they finally got here we all had a sort of impromptu potluck followed by a little indulgence in chocolate cookies (we don’t do desserts here like we used to!) and then the meeting started.

Paul, Kitey and I went for a walk for much of the time through the woods until it got so cold that Kitey went home leaving Paul and I to go on our own. We went to the creekbed again and spent quite a while hanging out there until a couple of shots rang out nearby (it’s deer season) and we thought it best to go home.

Sage and I went back here and fed Paul some of the leftover chickpeas and pasta from lunch followed by some green beans and rice. Well fed, he went to bed shortly before 7:00. Our dinner of refried beans still had another 90 minutes to go as the beans were still soaking.

So that brings us to now when Sage is asleep and I’m nearly so. Another short entry but what can you do? Tomorrow’s another day - and what looks to be a busy one. On top of the computer work we’ll do we have to do a ton of laundry including nearly all the diapers, cut a bunch more wood, empty the compost buckets and empty the poop bucket where we compost it in the woods (too much information?) - hey, it’s not all Grizzly Adams out here, you know. Somebody’s got to do that.

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