Summer's end

Not a lot going on. Well, at least not a lot of exciting news. Plants are growing like crazy. Even my potted plants this year, this coleus is nearly 5 feet tall.

Temps are cooling now. So nice. Yesterday I logged 500 miles of running since Jan 1, and this weather makes those run days so enjoyable. I am looking forward to more cool running days with my mileage increasing the next two months. Half Marathon Nov 10.

Sunset over home

Eclipse day

Did you know Nashville was the largest city In the path of the eclipse? I found it out the morning of the eclipse.

Michelle and William took the kids to the zoo celebration. I stayed home to work, but went outside and hour before the event and made a pinhole viewer. Then I just started watching. It was HOT until the sun took a snooze.

It got pretty dark (enough to make the roosters crow and the bugs sing!) but not quite as dark as Nashville.

Michelle took this first picture with her phone at the peak of the coverage. My shots were not as great as hers. Also I did not have special glasses so I was pointing the Lense without really looking. It was a lot of fun even by myself though. Would have been more fun at the zoo. Maybe next time.

Running trails

I found a great new running trail in Waverly. I needed to do 8 miles today and our road is so overgrown now since the county isn't keeping it cut, and it's dangerous. You can't see around curves at all so I looked for something different.

This trail isn't even on a road, it's a totally separate paved running path and it's lovely. A couple of Huge hills but it's good butt work.

Mopping

Margaret is such a good worker. She saw daddy mopping the floor so she want and got a baby wipe, dipped it in the water and started hand scrubbing the floor.
Daddy was using a mop but she didn't even seem to notice.

Hamilton is a stinker

Ham must have smelled the new donkeys and showed up at Michelle's. He is so smart but a stinker. Michelle had to guard him, then drag him to the work shed to lock him up. On the way he got hot and went swimming. She said he didn't even look remorseful but I'm hoping that dragging him by his hind legs then locking him up traumatized him enough to stay home after this.

New donkeys

Margaret says I can't send her donkeys to Papa, she wants to keep them. So don't tell her I am sending these.
This is Margaret with Sweetie Bell, Bambi and Madelyn. Oh and Imogene the goat who thinks she's a donkey.

Margaret and her Sweetie Bell

Irish picnic

It's that time again. Always a lot of fun.

Swing