The weather has cooled down substantially. Last week was in the high 90's and overnight it dropped to the 70's. Friday and yesterday's weather was downright gorgeous.
Rachel came home from school Friday not feeling well. She's been complaining of her throat hurting and a stuffy nose. I suspect allergies and she's sleeping on her back so it's draining to her throat. She didn't look great Friday evening, I gave her some Tylenol and she looked better. The kids and Jeremiah were going to go to the football game but Rachel and I both decided she should stay home and then Drew decided he didn't want to go after all so we pretty much stayed home. She seemed to be feeling much better yesterday but did go to bed pretty early (for her) last night.
Saturday Jeremiah and I were up early. There was some work to do over at the house that was too dusty for me to be there for so I did chores here then went over after he finished. We headed to Lowes for more mortar and interior doors. The pantry door went in easily, didn't need to be trimmed but the doors upstairs, with the ceiling only being 6'10" needed to be trimmed so Jeremiah did that while I tiled. I went as far as I could with the 1 50# bag of mortar we mixed up and we figured out last week we were about 2 boxes of tile too short. That was a dang tile that came from Home Depot in Wichita too so it meant we'd have to go back to get it!!! Not looking forward to that! We hadn't had the pantry in mind when we originally got the the tile anyway so thought we'd buy enough to do that too on the 2nd trip down. By 2 PM we were both hungry so we headed home and decided to knock Wichita out, took the kids down, had lunch, picked up more tile (in which it's been fully restocked and they probably had more than they had last time when they said it was in stock but nowhere to be found!). We were home by 5 and decided there was a lot to do here at the house so spend the rest of the evening working around here.
We still hadn't taken care of the big locust tree that had broken 3 Friday's ago and took out a metal trellis. The blades on the brush hog hadn't been sharpened in a while and the pasture will need to be mowed before winter. The county tries to mow at least one pass along the frontage before fair (which started Friday). This year they went all out and mowed back, where they could, to people's fence lines/tree lines. The brush hogs are wide, at least 10 foot so it's quick but I don't think they have ever mowed that far in and it looks nice all along 4th street all the way to town. I think it's the 3rd time the county has mowed. Our frontage is quite steep and deep and so they usually don't mow way down into the ditch which leaves us a lot along the driveway and the culvert but they did Thursday. I was headed to town, in fact, and saw them working down the road and came home to remove the solar lights. Generally they don't mow enough to bother them but with as wide as it looked liked they were doing, I didn't want them run over.
Pretty much we'd been working since 8 AM solid on through to 8:30 last night minus the trip to Wichita. We didn't come in until after dark. I mowed the yard, which takes forever and that's without moving the lawn furniture. Usually I am in a hurry and mow around but the grass growing up underneath the picnic table made it unavoidable. Some things are becoming eye sores and needed to be put away or thrown away. Jeremiah got the tree taken care of so the front yard looks much better.
It was a really gorgeous Sept. day yesterday. We're in for another really nice day today. It's supposed to heat up to 90 for a couple of days which stinks because I am picking the kids up to take them to the fair tomorrow after school and was looking forward to not sweltering!!! Traffic has picked up majorly in town with it being fair time. Lots of out of towners and trailers, etc. are all over. All the extra people really does make a significant impact.
We're going to get back over to the house today after a couple of errands this morning, shooting for Oct. 1 for this house to be done. Don't know if we'll make it, the "small" last minute things sure add up!
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