Shorter days are now with us!! It was still pitch dark when I got up this morning. Ah well.
Chloe has been driving me nuts. The one squirrel nest in the back sugar maple must have mentally challenged critters in it because they keep falling to the ground, right at doggie's paws, so she has turned that tree into a shrine of hope and stands beneath it quivering with anticipation. She ignores my calls to her to come back inside, and when I finally do get her in, she cries at the door to be let back out. I used to like squirrels...
Anyway, another weekday, another baby waiting day, but something in the air this morning makes me think this might be the time.
I grilled a flank steak last night, and it was getting dark at 7:30 pm. Jim and I both count fall as our favorite season, so we don't mind!
The weather was absolutely magnificent here this weekend. It's cloudy today, and we're probably going to get a little rain. My friend is leaving for Florida again on Thursday, and she's becoming a bit emotional about it. She had an altercation with her former brother-in-law while she was up here (her sister died about six years ago), and it's really upset her. The two weeks went by very quickly, and she doesn't know when she'll get another chance to be up here for this long.
Poor Chloe! She wants those squatter squirrels out of her territory! Dogs always think that their humans are mentally challenged, though. I know that Lucy frequently thinks so when she tries to tell me that there's a massive emergency outside, and yet I ignore the walking neighbors as being something insigificant. It's always a deeply disappointing confirmation to Lucy that I'm stupid.
I don't know yet what the day will bring, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will at least bring our board a new baby!
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"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
(Dumbledore to Harry Potter)
