Beautiful full moon this week

It's great watching that moon rise up behind the bare trees and then waking up in the early morning dark to see it heading for the hills to the west.

The days are getting cooler and the leaves are no longer brilliant. They were spectacular this year, although the peak color seemed to only last a day or so last weekend.
I meant to get pictures but I didn't.

We have allowed the goats to feed inside our fence in the afternoons, letting them take advantage of the last of the fescue before the cold turns it brown and kills it off. I'm trying to spread the spoiled hay across the flat spot near the barn in hopes we will have something that resembles grass there next year. I should be wearing a mask when I spread it. There is so much mildew in it that it makes me choke trying to separate it from the pile.

The hens are only producing one or two eggs a day now. I guess because the days are getting shorter. So we won't be giving away as many as we had this past summer when they were cranking out 4 per day like a production line.

We are in sort of a flux state with the time change, we didn't keep up so things get left undone, until my body clock gets back into the rhythm of the day. We get up earlier, but we've been falling asleep early too.

I've got two piles of wood that need to be split. I'll take the poplar, you can try your hand at the red oak. The poplar splits easy, like ripping paper; whereas there is no reasoning with red oak. It doesn't like to be split, especially the stuff that is twisted or gnarled. You might as well pound rocks. When you handle the wood, it leaves behind really fine splinters, the kind you can't feel when they get embedded, but by the next day you'll remember them. I've spent many evenings with a hot pin in a futile attempt to dislodge the slivers. The splinters aren't any worse than the fire ant bites so I guess I can put up with them.

The conversation about getting a TV comes up more frequently now, but it's probably just talk.
We've been without TV ( but are happy to have Netflix) for long enough that I don't think we would find much benefit in it. Even when I travel, I prefer to read or sleep rather than watch TV.

In the evenings, we'll listen to Andrew play guitar, either the acoustic or electric, play a card game or dominoes or watch a rented movie so I'm not sure if I even miss broadcast TV anymore.

Kind of a boring life, but we might not trade it for anything. We'll maybe a weekend in Cabo.

We hope ya'll are doing fine.