09 September 2013

The  beginning of the end of summer. September began as a warm and wonderful fall season and ended as a cold and wet fall month. In between the beginning and the end we had quite and enjoyable time.

The Nash kids were still here and Tara was on her way to pick them up. Gussie, Fran and Ami spent the summer with granny Julia and grandpa Woody and grandma Val. They were kept busy with the grand kids. Now that they are gone there is time to recover but now we are missing those little kids.

Dawn and I spent time at the Eastern Idaho State Fair selling tickets for an ATV sponsored by the YMCA as a fund raiser. We joined Julia and Woody for fun and food. I particularly liked the heavy pull competition of the draft horses. Wandering through the Art Barn and Antique Barn is always enjoyable.

Then the rains came! We had a few very wet days but no complaints we need moisture. The temperature was warm and no need to irrigate the grass. This gave us time to put in a strawberry bed in place of an overgrown garden spot. Also, time to pick up the last of the apples from under the tree. This year was a bumper crop and I had to pick up huge piles of apples. Now that the weather is changing I put away the hot tub and camp trailer for the winter. We are still enjoying the last of the fall flowers since we have not had a hard freeze yet. (I have insulated all the big windows with plastic anticipating the temperature dropping below freezing).

We were able to golf a few times before the fall changes to winter. While we were at Cedar Park near Ririe we picked McIntosh apples off the tree near the 8^th green. Along with the apples we got from Julia’s back yard, we have canned apple sauce, apple butter and dehydrated bags of apple slices. This was a bid apple year.

Some of the other projects we completed were: worked at the Community Soup Kitchen, caulked the downstairs shower, Woody completed remodel of his basement and finally finished his jeep (looks good!), the VW brakes finally adjusted, continue to do Indexing for family history, we now have a 4:30am shift at the Idaho Falls temple for September and October.

We are now planning a family reunion in California the middle of October.  More to come!!

 

Nash Kids at Tautphus Park Zoo

Golfing at Cedar Park

Making apple sauce

Potato harvest at Taylorview farms

Woody finishes his US Mail - Army jeep

Draft horse pull competition at the EISF

Dawn with Robot Man EISF

Cake decorating at EISF

Soup Kitchen workers

Rain in September

More apples to dehydrate

The new strawberry patch

Winter is coming so cover up!

The last of the apples under the tree

Fall flowers