This crazy life

Seems that members of this family have done more coming and going than staying around this summer! Early this morning I drove Rick to the airport so he can attend his nephew's wedding on Sunday evening. He took with him handcrafted wedding gifts, a big salad bowl and a small "loose change" dish (shown with a penny). As a joke Rick engraved the small dish with "Brad's money," as if that's all this med student and future doctor will have.  ;-)

On my way home coming up our hill, I stopped to snap this photo (click to biggify to get a sense of scale):

That lot used to be covered with overgrown Christmas trees; I imagine it will be planted in wine grapes like most everything else around here is these days. The third blog post I did was about similar activity years ago on our hill, and the geologic features that helped me choose my farm name.

Brian had just finished chores as instructed when I got home from the airport. He was eager to get to an acquaintance's at the other end of our lane and dissemble a trampoline to bring home. I don't know how long he'll sustain interest, but right now he finds it irresistible. He's even sleeping on it tonight!

But today wasn't all about play. Our favorite local hay producer had let me know yesterday that he had 72 bales of second cutting for us. He has a grapple so there was no effort involved in loading; we saved our muscles for the unloading/stacking. I was pretty proud of myself; this is the first time I've backed the big flatbed into the barn (with Brian's guidance)!

Now I have ibuprofen on board and need to go to sleep. So glad tomorrow is a rest day!

That's it for now from . . .