The first family post

Hey, 

So this will be a quick post, it is getting late and the bed is begining to call.  I don't want to miss that since the last few nights I have found myself laying awake around midnight wishing I could go to sleep then waking up at 5:30 to the alarm wishing I could go back to sleep.  :( 

Was a rainy fall feeling day today.  Did a quick browse out to the garden.  Everyting has stopped, no slowing down or gradual die down of growth, it is done.  I was hoing to get a couple more weeks of cucumbers and summer squash before it all ended.  Time to get the hoops and cloth back over the things I want to ripen.  I did finally get enough tomatoes to can 2 canners for us.  The CSA people have all their canning veggies so the rest belongs to me.  I would really like to hit my 100qt goal this year.  We're 14 closer to that woo hoo!...?   Spent several hours shearing Christmas trees, but weenied out when the blisters started to form on my fingers. Tomorrow its tape and hopefully batting gloves (if I can find them) to make it less painful.  That is if my arm will work, it is pretty tired tonight.  Finished up today at football practice with C.  They had a bad game on Saturday, the boys weren't "feeling it" and played badly, more like the 3/4th team instead of the varsity players.  They spent some quality time pushing the coaches son around on the sled.  Hopefully the will "feel it" this Saturday when we play Estacada.