August is in Full Swing

Today started late for me as I slept in a little this morning due to a middle of the night rising. Unable to sleep I slipped quietly into the family room to read. . . . . finished my book. The first fictional book in over a year or more. My current steady diet of reading has circled around the magnitude of research books I have been consuming. I even have one waiting right now by my chair. Along with a dozen or so on hold at the library. Not to mention the one on it's way that I ordered on line for our reference library. I am not lacking for reading material which is obvious from the lined bookcase and the stack of magazines sitting on the coffee table. I love to read which is why I find new books so appealing to get. Only time will tell but I think I have instilled this same love into my granddaughter. One of her favorite requests of me is "read me this book". Seconded only to "let me read you a book." Gotta love it!

Our project for today was to put up some shelves in the bathroom closet. They look so nice and will give me more space than is needed for towels and such. I am sure I will have no problem filling them up with items. For this house is a little short on storage space. Lon even had time to put up some trim in the dinning room while I made a trip to the building supply in the next town for what we needed. Yea! Things are really taking shape with each little finishing detail being put into place. We had wanted to work outside today, but with getting a late start was unable. After having an 11:00 country breakfast (or should I say brunch?), it was just too hot to start. The goal is to do outside projects in the mornings then move to inside projects in the heat of the day after lunch. Good plan, just hard to do some days. Life will always give you a curve ball just when you are ready for a line drive.

We already know he will have to work extra this Saturday. It is to pay back time that was covered while he was off during my mission trip last month. Thankful then . . . . . hate it now.

Looks like it could be a busy week for us, especially if he also gets an overtime shift add to his schedule. Then I have a day set aside for a doctor's apt. and some testing to be done. That leaves us with only one other day for projects here at the farm this week. It is all too easy to fill up your days without knowing it if one is not careful.

We discussed all of our Fall projects again yesterday morning over coffee on the porch. The need to get started is urgent. Time is passing by and our days seem already filled up before we start them. I have a sneaky feeling that August will be over way too soon and it is only the third day of the month.

At present I am sitting here in this heavy heat watching the goats browse. If I can get some energy up after a busy day like today. I would like to clear some weeds from the flowerbeds I am trying to establish. Lon is away this evening for his first Bethel East Volunteer Fire Dept. meeting. Terry, one of the volunteers brought him a radio last Friday. So he can get and respond to the 911 calls for their station. I guess this makes him official as a volunteer all but the turn-out gear he will need and the F.D. truck tag. I guess our life will always revolve around a fire truck somewhere, even after retirement is accomplished.



Living out a dream,

Deborah