Day Two, in the Can

That's two days of school done, 173 to go.

Half lessons of math for Nolan and Trevor, so far, just to ease them into the routine.

Tomorrow is a full lesson, after which they will no doubt need a brief stay in the hospital.

Me? I'm heading for the psych ward, ha ha.

However, I have tentatively given word that there may be one more visit to the lake, next week when our temps return back to the 90's. Perhaps I'll make that contingent on good behavior...

The garden is showing a fine crop of weeds. I think there are tomatoes and new beans out there. One of these days I may even check.

Everything gets pretty old this time of year. Seems like half the summer was missed.

Nolan saw a little dust devil go through the soybean field today and described how the plants were twisted this way and that.

Pretty much describes the past three months!

But we do have Emily's wedding to look forward to, on Friday evening. That should be a fun deal....getting out and seeing people we haven't seen for a long time.

Speaking of leaving the house, I did go shopping this afternoon. Shopping at my old haunts in Iowa Falls. Nolan didn't have tutoring on Labor Day so no six-hour trip to Cedar Rapids. Good thing. I was still sick that day.

Feeling mostly better. Haven't gotten back to all the miles on the treadmill. Soon enough, though.

In the meantime, we keep company with the beasties of the house: the mice, which startle us by popping out of drawers and into the stove (and for which I bought more traps today)....the gnats which line the fly strips (and of which I nabbed a particularly annoying one by the couch, this evening)...and the crickets who merrily chirp away behind chairs and baseboards.

The worst case scenario being a chirper in a bedroom, in the middle of the night.

Speaking of rest...

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