Lazy Days of Summer

It's August and the summer is quickly winding down. Seems like just yesterday Cari and I were celebrating the last of the winter snow melting. And now I've noticed that the light has already shifted. The intense clarity of the summer sun has given way to the soft yellow of the autumnal season. Sigh!

Although it was an unseasonably wet and cool summer it still had its charms nonetheless. Our garden did wonderfully well. Thank you Garden Deva's and Nature Spirits. The roses filled the air with their heady perfume and the forest continued to nurture us and keep us safe.

We had two new additions to the chicken coop (technically we had ten new additions but they went to a lovely couple that spoil them even more than we do). Cari came in the other day to announce she had named the two month old chick. His name is Rusty. Yes, Rusty the Rooster. We now have four roosters in our flock. Strangely enough they all get along. We're keeping our fingers crossed that the newest chickie poo is a hen. Please Poultry Goddesses, let this one be a hen.

When we are not working off the farm at our paying jobs, Cari and I have been busy bringing in the harvest and slowly getting the farm and house ready for winter.

I'm looking forward to September (my favourite time of the year). My first novel The Still Life of Hannah Morgan is being released tomorrow through Lilley Press Publishing and to me it marks the beginning of wonderful and new things to come.

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